The Therapist Says:
When you are in the process of grieving, all of your energy is going toward trying to keep your emotional equilibrium. But that won’t work. Now is the time to allow yourself to mourn and move through your intense pain - not to try to go about life as normal.
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Grieving & Loss Workshop
At the age of 45, Rachael’s one-year-old daughter, Jenny, was diagnosed with a rare terminal genetic disorder. Three years later Jenny died. While Rachael had three years to prepare herself for the loss she still needed a great deal of support to deal with the amount of grief that she experienced upon her daughter’s death. She still had to take care of her two other children and her husband.
Rachael:
I remember on our way home from our Hawaiian vacation, we stopped at Children's Hospital in Denver to have a peculiar curve in Jenny's spine looked at. The doctor called in a geneticist, who looked at that sweet round face and suspected something for which he did a urine test.
Shortly thereafter he came to us and told us the news. Jenny had a terminal genetic illness called Hurlers. She would die between the ages of two and ten. I remember the room beginning to fade as the colors melted like a watercolor painting.
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