Operation Safe Harbour — Disclaimer
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An important disclaimer, preferably, in a bold, a fire-engine red size 50 font, all in capitals. I am not a trained psychotherapist nor an experienced counsellor. I have not even completed a three day course on how to facilitate a bereavement support group. Also, I am neither a grief advocate nor an educator.
So, what am I an expert in? Just like you, I am an expert on my own journey, as is everyone who is also grieving right now. For, in the words of Dr. Julie Kaplow, executive director of The Trauma and Grief Center at The Jackett Center for Mental Health, “There’s no right or wrong way to grieve. There is no end point; it comes and goes. It’s a matter of finding ways to cope with those ebbs and flows throughout the grief process.” With this blog, my goal is to merely share what has helped me to manage my grief over the holidays but also to offer a variety of other voices across the spectrum to help others feel that they are not going through this alone. This blog is not meant to be used as a one size fits all solution to grief but rather, instead, perhaps be considered as a supplemental source of support in a bereaved’s toolbox of coping strategies to successfully get through the holidays. If this project only manages to help one other person over the next couple of months, then it has served its purpose.
