How to lead your clients safely through the agony of bereavement
- Mark Tyrrell

“Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

People say that there are different stages to grief, from numbness and disbelief and denial, shock and intense sadness, through anger, guilt and acceptance. Of course, different people deal with grief in different ways and no one has to respond in all these ways or experience them in any particular set order.

We live in a society where ageing, sickness and even simple bad luck are somewhat taboo. Just when the grieving client may need support and understanding and listening ears, they may find people avoiding them out of embarrassment and …

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