If you love someone and they die, grief will come — whether you want it to or not. How you move through that journey makes all the difference.
If you need experienced support to help you process and work through your grief, I am here for you. Get personalized grief, bereavement, and end-of-life counseling from a 30+ year specialist from the comfort of your own home.
Navigating Through Grief
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Grief following the death of a central person in your life is not a problem to be solved or fixed. It is not negative, a mistake, or wrong, and it comes without our permission. Grief is an integral part of being human, and we will all know deep grief when someone we love dies.
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You might find yourself feeling lost or in the depths of despair, thinking there must be something wrong with you. Maybe it’s because you feel you're not meeting society's expectation that grief should be over in mere weeks or months. Or maybe you find yourself wondering if life will ever be worth living again…know that you are not alone.
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Grief is an inescapable human experience. The deeper the love and the deeper the connection to the the one who died, the deeper the grief will be.
While we all possess the capacity and resiliency to find our way through grief, I know the difference it can make to work with an experienced grief counselor; someone who can walk with you and help guide you through your journey.
The Grief Counseling Process
My role is to listen, to provide a safe space for you to talk about your loss. It is also to help you understand what grief looks like in its many forms, and to gently guide as you work through the pain of your loss, learning how to carry your grief in meaningful ways while gradually moving toward healing.
With 30+ years’ experience as a hospice end-of-life educator, I also understand the dying process. This knowledge is utilized early on in the grief counseling process when a client might be struggling with circumstances and questions surrounding the death of their loved one. I provide comprehensive end-of-life education, help dispel myths around death and dying, and assist in gaining clarity and understanding. This clarity and understanding is helpful in becoming “unstuck” and beginning to find forward movement in the grieving process.
You have the capacity for resiliency and the wisdom within to eventually find your
way up and out of grief —
and you can also help yourself by letting an experienced guide join you
on this journey.
I’m Carol Schoneberg. I have 30+ years’ experience as a hospice grief counselor and end-of-life educator.
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In this Heart of Hospice podcast episode, I share wisdom about disenfranchised grief — the grief that society says isn’t real, but we all experience. I also discuss the importance of having supportive friends and family.
