How do I grieve—and survive? Well-meaning friends and family encourage grievers “not to dwell” on the loss, to “get over it” and “move on”—at a time when this is very difficult to do in today’s society. However, to thrive on the other side of grief requires finding solutions to questions we are living out but often do not ask because we are rushing to get grief over with. If explored, these questions can help individuals create a healing approach for themselves despite the pressure to hurry up and “get on with their lives.” We were joined by Anne Grenchus, LCSW, who shares her expertise on this topic.
How do I grieve—and survive? Well-meaning friends and family encourage grievers “not to dwell” on the loss, to “get over it” and “move on”—at a time when this is very difficult to do in today’s society. However, to thrive on the other side of grief requires finding solutions to questions we are living out but often do not ask because we are rushing to get grief over with. If explored, these questions can help individuals create a healing approach for themselves despite the pressure to hurry up and “get on with their lives.”
We were joined by Anne Grenchus, LCSW, who shares her expertise on this topic.
Bio:
For 25 years Anne Grenchus, LCSW has blended social work and philosophy in her academic and clinical studies and work. Her 5+ years of “exceptional” hospice home care and bereavement counselor work has proven that phenomenological existentialism can provide a practical framework through which people living in an individualistic society can explore life challenges. Anne teaches practical workshops to hospice staff on communication and de-escalation techniques for psychiatric and dementia patients by exploring patients’ lived experience of care provision, and, has taught phenomenological existentialism (the theoretical foundation of Svend Brinkmann’s work) to undergraduates. She brings this experience to bear in her teaching, her bereavement work for Hudson Valley Hospice, and her private practice work at Life Whispering Counseling.