Resources
We have gathered together here some material we hope people will find useful.
Grief and adjustment to change
This article describes a new approach to the process of grief and adjustment to change. In fact, grief is one example of a more general process of adjustment to change. I originally wrote this paper for GPs but over the years it has become a useful resource for my clients, their family members and friends. The most important feedback I have received is that this paper has been reassuring to people and has helped them to feel that what they are going through is normal.
I run half-day workshops based on this approach to help people understand their grief process better so that they can be more helpful to themselves and others.
Feel free to contact me if you have any feedback on this article that you would like to share with me.
This article can be helpful to anyone working in an emotionally demanding area such as counsellors, nurses, teachers, doctors, youth workers, social workers, and social and political activists. It suggests strategies to help prevent burnout and secondary traumatisation.
This handout shows the dynamics of human emotions. It emphasises the importance of experienceing all our emotions fully, instead of blocking them, which is what most of us have learned to do. It reminds us that there are no good or bad emotions, and that all emotions are equally important.
Throughout human history, emotions have been given bad publicity. They have been seen as unreliable, as a sign of weakness or as a nuisance. However, in reality, emotions are a vital source of information about ourselves and the world around us. To reject any of our emotions means we miss out on important information that we need in order to make decisions and understand ourselves better.
