Grief, Loss and the Holidays (1 Hour)

Objectives

•  Identify grief, trauma and depression triggers
• -Explore ways to deal with them Trauma and Grief
• Trauma results when people feel a lack of control, disempowerment and unsafeness
• Grief is commonly associated with a sense of powerlessness over the loss of something important (people, pets, faith, ability to do what you feel you “should”)
• Grief can be traumatic
• Trauma almost always results in losses to be grieved