Disenfranchised Grief

“Grief that persons experience when they incur a loss that is not or cannot be openly acknowledged, socially sanctioned or publicly mourned.” Dr. Kenneth Doka

Imagine the pain of loss complicated by being unable to share your story or participate in the rituals associated with mourning. Can unresolved grief act as a trigger and impede coping with future losses?

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s