10 Tips for Coping with Anticipatory Grief
Jennifer Gannon
Anticipatory grief is the grief you feel as you anticipate and await an impending loss. Typically, it refers to the death of a loved one or your own demise, but it can also be any looming change such as a forced job loss, scheduled mastectomy, or having to move to an assisted living facility. Everybody is going to face some type of loss in their life. None of us gets out of this lifetime without having experienced some type of grief. – Regina Josell, PsyD As you mourn the anticipated loss, you reflect on many of the same questions that people who have just experienced a similar loss do. For...
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