406 SelfWork: How to Grieve A Parent's Death

The SelfWork Podcast

Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD

Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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How do you grieve a parent's death? Even older adults have told me they feel "orphaned" after both of their parents die. So imagine what can happen when a parent dies when a child is young. There are all kinds of reasons for that child to feel as if their life will never be the same - that the loss makes it impossible to recover their innocence or contentment. Today we'll hear from a listener who's describing this very dynamic. So much of what happens to a child depends on the adults around them. Yet, I offer ideas on what you can do about it as an adult yourself... as always. The death can't be changed, obviously. But how you live on, how you work through your grief, can be helped through these proactive steps. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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1:07.0	At self-work we discuss psychological and emotional issues and what you can do about them.
1:15.0	Whether that's learning self-acceptance, taking action, or seeking therapy or treatment.
1:21.0	Eight years ago I extended the walls of my practice to reach those of you
1:25.4	who might already be knowledgeable about mental health treatment, but also to those of you who
1:29.8	might say, you'd never darken the door of a therapist and yet you are here I'll answer your
1:35.7	questions while I invite you to take a few minutes for your own self-work. The message is one that is so valuable to people to realize that just because
1:48.2	you're functioning doesn't mean that you couldn't have underlying emotional pain and deep emotional pain.
1:55.8	That is so important to remember and sadly our mental health profession probably still doesn't follow that thinking.
2:05.0	Welcome to this week's edition of self-work.
2:09.0	So many of your emails tell me what's on your mind and heart
2:12.0	and receiving them means a lot to me. One such
2:15.2	email this month was very touching is from a woman whose mother died when she was
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