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Laura Berman discusses the healing power of feeling grief (Part 3)

Laura Berman discusses the healing power of feeling grief (Part 3)

From Martha Debayle

1h ago
griefmental_healththerapyemotional_healingpersonal_experience
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To a griever, the best thing you can do is, if you can. If you can tolerate it, is to sit by their side and let them feel their pain without trying to take it away from them. That is so healing. But if you can't, there we can talk about other things you can do. Yeah, but. But. Because only if you go through feeling and living your pain is that you can truly start healing. Yeah. I was so scared. I mean, I realized since this has all happened, I have realized that the reason I even became a therapist 30 years ago is because I was so scared of emotional pain. You know, my mother was severely depressed when I was a child, and that was really hard. I was very. I had a lot of depression as a young adult, and it was always something I had to kind of push away or get rid of or help other people. And really, the path to freedom is learning that you can feel all the feelings. And if you just let yourself feel them, they will not take you over. They will not carry you away. It will actually set you free. And that's a big part of what I teach in the book, is how to allow yourself to feel what wants to be felt in a healthy way. Yeah. Con el suyo. Por algues pas cosas. Uno tiene ca sel fuerte tiene ca sel beneficial de los otros nicigar and beneficial tuyo yelecho deque solamente passando atravesando processando to the lore El sufrimiento esque Uno puede santa.
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