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Helpful Tools for Moving through Grief and Loss

3 April 2024 by

Canadian Psychotherapist Esther Kane interviews Dawn Hertz, a grief and loss therapist, to provide some tools for those of you who are grieving a recent loss.

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Episode Contents:

0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Introduction of Dawn Hertz
1:30 How Dawn has been touched personally by grief and loss
9:39 How she became interested in specializing in grief and loss as a therapist
12:52 What grief and loss looks like for most people in the short term, after a year, and in the long run
15:28 How western culture helps or harms those who are grieving
19:46 Mistakes people make when trying to help someone who is grieving
23:48 How to best support someone who is grieving
25:00 Pitfalls grieving people fall into and how they can these be avoided
29:27 How grieving people can recognize what they need and then ask for it
35:50 Do we ever truly ‘get over’ a significant loss?
40:20 Dawn shares stories of hope from those who have moved through significant loss in their lives

FREE resources:

  • Blog post about losing my dear friend to brain cancer
  • Read articles I’ve written on grief and loss

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