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grief-navigation-basics

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Practical guidance for navigating grief after loss. Use when someone has lost a person, relationship, job, or life chapter and needs help understanding what they're experiencing and how to move through it.

When to use

• Someone has recently lost a person they loved (death)
• Going through a significant breakup or divorce
• Experienced a major loss (job, health, home, a life vision)
• Feels overwhelmed and doesn't know if what they're experiencing is "normal"
• People around them are being unhelpful and they don't know how to respond
• Wants to create a memorial or ritual to honor the loss
• Unsure when grief becomes something that needs professional help

When not to use

• grief after trauma
• sudden violent loss
• suicide bereavement

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