ServerI was introduced to gilbert mediation (GMI) during my undergraduate degree in education, and I have been participating in GMI’s group since its inception. Recently, I have been in a few of my GMI groups and have been enjoying their discussions and discussions about our experiences of grief.
It’s not just about talking about the death of our loved one. It’s about allowing your grief to be fully in your control. It is important to allow yourself to experience all the emotions that you are feeling with full awareness. Your thoughts and feelings need to be completely in your control, and you need to allow yourself to experience them on a daily basis.
I know of nothing more powerful than allowing yourself to experience your grief. When the pain is too much to bear, it is not always easy to say, “I don’t want to feel this anymore.” But it is important to let the grief out, and to let yourself feel it as if you were experiencing it in real life, rather than just in your mind.
I have an extensive background in personal and professional therapy. In my practice, I work with individuals and couples who have experienced grief (particularly childhood grief, but also adult loss and divorce). Although this group is not intended to replace therapy, I find that it helps to release feelings and feelings that are too frightening to face, and allows me to help them to feel better. Although everyone experiences grief in different ways, the process of releasing grief should be a normal and natural act.
This group is for adults and teens. In a typical group I work with, each person is assigned a topic of death, mourning, or grief to be shared with a few people in the group over the course of two to three hours.
These three goals of the group will be discussed in the next chapter.
In other words, it’s an intense, but supportive, group. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate how supportive and caring this group is. I feel like I can talk about things with people who understand. I don’t mean to be condescending, but it’s very true.I can’t tell you how many tears I’ve cried while talking about my feelings about this group.
A bit like grief counselling, it can be a very cathartic, healing thing. As long as you’re in a group that’s committed to helping out, I think there’s no harm in getting it. There’s a chance you’ll never feel the same again.
So that should tell you how much I like this group. I know this sounds like an absurd statement, and it probably is, but as a person with depression, the fact that someone in my life feels completely comfortable talking about their feelings with a group of people that genuinely like them, it makes me feel better.
But I don’t know how to tell you that. If you’re going to be a great help, it’s going to be very humbling. You get to do it, I mean. It’s great, and I’m going to give it a go.
Sophia Jennifer
