The Many Faces of Grief | BJ Miller MD from Mettle Health
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There are different types of grief: the grief that follows the loss of any kind, and grief that often precedes the loss, "anticipatory grief". As a fundamental human process, grief is unavoidable. As such, it pays to lean into grief rather than to run away from it, and that requires patience, time, and lots of support.
Show Notes:
00:00 Introduction
7:39 Anticipatory Grief
9:19 Complicated Grief
11:30 The relationship of grief to love
13:30 Families and co-grieving
16:15 Cultural traditions around loss and grief
35:00 The myth of “getting over” a loss
37:15 Suggestions for grief rituals
41:00 Grief and anger
43:14 Creating a new relationship with the deceased
45:00 What to do for people who are grieving, expressing kindness
48:41 Being affected by grief
50:18 Social inequality and suffering in isolation
52:30 Racial inequality
54:00 Growing through loss versus being crushed by loss
56:47 Feeling guilty about not grieving “properly”
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