Workbook
After Losing a Child
The Grief That Breaks Every Other Grief Model
There is no grief that breaks the way this one breaks. This workbook does not pretend otherwise.
For the parent who has lost a child to death at any age, from any cause, and is carrying the grief that does not fit any model and does not fully end.
The Name It First Experience
The grief of losing a child does not fit any stage model. There is no timeline. There is no acceptance phase that means what it means in other grief. There is only living inside it. This workbook does not offer a path to the other side. It offers a structure for the inside: who your child was, what the grief is doing, what you are constructing around the loss rather than instead of it. What you produce is The After Losing a Child Agreement. The output is not closure. It is a document.
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Sample questions
- What do you want to say about them that the world around you doesn't have language for?
- What is still there for you to love about them, and where do you put that now?
- What do you need from the people around you that they haven't known to offer?
Research basis
Grounded in bereaved parent research (Rubin, 1999, on the two-track model of bereavement) / Continuing Bonds Theory (Klass et al.) on the ongoing relationship with a deceased child / and Ambiguous Loss Theory (Boss) applied to the particular features of child loss.
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