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This kind of counseling can help in cases of:
- Terminal illness
- Chronic pain
- Loss of loved ones
- Unhealed wounds from the past
Dealing With Life’s Most Difficult Challenges
As the breezes of life and death and illness blow across our lives, our suffering becomes compounded until we are backed against the wall — and our only recourse is to let go.
Dealing with serious illness in ourselves or in our loved ones, or with the loss of a partner, parent, child or friend is really no different than dealing with chronic pain. Our tendency is to distract from it, comfort ourselves, and protect ourselves from dealing with the loss.
Most of us are fearful of grief — we fear we will always be grieving. However, if you open to grief, the experience is always different from what you’d expect. Actually, you will discover healing.
This healing is in gently touching the fire, the heat, and staying with it. Not going toward it or away from it. Allowing the hurt to be hurt.
Simply put, you cannot “cope” with the devastation of loss. People who “cope” suffer this devastation their whole lives. There is another path.
When we stop coping and start dealing with the pain in an open way, we learn how to thrive. And if we are to live, we need to learn how to live with pain. Only in this way can pleasure return to our lives.
The loss does not go away. Loss, however, can be transcended. The painful feelings will fade. This is not a matter of “rising above it.” Instead, the direction is to go toward your feelings. Only when you shed your resistance to painful feelings can you start to see your life as it really is, rather than as you would like it to be. Embracing this understanding will help you in ways you cannot yet imagine. You can live a full, rich life, without dissociating from loved ones you are caring for in their time of suffering, and without forgetting loved ones who have died.
Get Started Today:
Or Call Me:
Oakland
510-420-0753
Sebastopol
707-824-1110
email: mordechaimitnick@comcast.net
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