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Lesson OneTypes of Loss3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoGrieving After Death3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeLoss of Relationships3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FourLoss in Covid Times3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FiveHope for Those Who Have Suffered Loss3 Activities1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity1 Assessment
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Discussion Questions
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In this lesson, Dr. Welch says, “There is no right way to grieve.” Do you agree? Have you ever seen someone grieve in a way that you thought was “wrong”? Explain.
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I agree, there is no right way. Some ways may be strange, but if is helping the person getting thru grief who am I to judge.
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I have some hang ups about “ there is no right way to grieve”. I would disagree because we shouldn’t get mad or angry with God yet some people do. My daughter has been grieving in the loss of her Daddy for 8 years. She’s angry with God , she’s angry with me, she’s become an introvert and won’t share her feelings. She has emotional issues and mentally messed up because she became angry with God and me when Charlie died. She has anxiety, depression. I wish she would have handled it in a different way.
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I believe everyone grieves differently. I don’t know of a wrong way.
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I agree there is no right way to grieve. No I have never seen someone grieve in a way that I thought was wrong. Everyone grieves differently depending on their own personal relationships. I recently lost my husband after a long illness, and I am going through grieving now. Shelby
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Everyone is different and therefore, there is no set formula to grief. I am speaking from my own experience that I grief so differently for the lost of my mom and my dad. It took me months from getting out of my mom’s passing away as she was so active just a month before her passing away. Meanwhile we were all thinking dad might be the one going first as he had been in and out of hospitals and had long term deseases. Dad lived couple more years after mom passed away and we experienced God’s grace upon him and celebrated his life.
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Reflect on the C. S. Lewis quote: “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” In what ways do you think grief feels like fear? How does that make coping with grief/loss difficult?
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Grief feels like fear because something unexpected happen and we doesn’t Know what to do with it. No one can prepare for loss of loved ones but have to deal with it in different ways.
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It changes our physiology. We no longer feels as safe as we did– everything is different now. Having a new normal
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My mother died of congested heart failure on Feb. 15, 2019. My brothers and I watched my mom suffer through such pain and physical ailments and we each begin to fear about our own health. I have to really concentrate even today on not letting my mom and dads deaths from their illnesses affect me negatively. It was grief but also fear over what could be and what they could have done differently.
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Grief feels like fear, because there is such uncertainty. It is not predictable, and is very elusive. When the grief process starts you feel as if you are out of control. Loss can make one apprehensive, and afraid actually to make next steps in their life. Grief can feel like fear because you do not know from day today how your emotions will be, and how to manage the sudden triggers that can sometimes set off a very emotional response.
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You are afraid of what to do. Living without that person. Fear of the unknown.
