Soul Therapy® - Bristol and London Grief, Loss and Trauma Counselling

Grief, Loss, Trauma

Stephen Shaw has degrees in Communication, Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology as well as postgraduate diplomas in Neurolinguistic Programming, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Advanced Scientific Hypnotherapy, Past Life Regression, Psychometric Assessment, Training and Development, and Leadership. Stephen has over 15 years of therapy, healing and business experience, and is a registered member of the British Psychological Society.

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Stages Of Grief And Loss

The Kübler-Ross model, commonly known as the five stages of grief, was first introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book "On Death and Dying". It describes a 5-stage process by which people deal with grief, trauma, terminal illness or catastrophic loss.

Denial

"I feel good" or "This is not happening to me". Denial of reality is usually just a first stage defense for the individual. This stage will not last long. Some people bypass this stage.

Anger

"Why me?" or "It's not fair!" or "This person/authority/God is to blame!" A variety of angry feelings may surface, including envy and rage toward many people.

Bargaining

"Just let me live to see my child marry" or "I will do anything for just a few more years of life". The individual hopes to somehow avoid the pain of loss or to postpone death.

Depression

"I am so sad ... I don't care anymore" or "I miss my lover ... why keep living?". The grieving or dying person begins to understand the certainty of loss or of impending death. The individual may withdraw, stop communicating, refuse visitors and spend much of the time crying and grieving. Grieving is a necessary and healthy process that takes its own time.

Acceptance

"It is going to be okay" or "I can't stop this, so I may as well accept it or prepare for it." In this last stage, the individual begins to accept the loss that has occurred or the loss that is about to happen. It is time to make peace and find a way to move forward.

Some people may skip a stage but everyone experiences the last two stages.

There are many excellent London and Bristol psychotherapists, hypnotherapists, counsellors and life coaches who can help open a new world for you. Soul Therapy is a London and Bristol psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, counselling and life coaching practice that offers a range of services tailored to each individual client. Soul Therapy was founded upon a decade of experience in psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, counselling and healing.

I Am Just A Human ... Being

When someone close to you dies ... passes away ... moves to the next level ... you have no choice but to reflect on things in an existential way.

If you have always lived your life as if every moment mattered, then this is not the time to suddenly shift your goals. If you have lived in a deeply spiritual and loving way, you will not being amending your values in a hurry. If you have a deep understanding about the meaning of life, then your loved one's death does not revise your perspective.

However, death makes you think about a person's life. What does it mean in the end? How do you define a person when they are gone? What about their faults and foibles? The times they let you down, disappointed you, could not fulfil your emotional needs, and did not love you in the way you hoped?

When you take the time to reflect about your departed loved one ... it is an opportunity for huge understanding, empathy, kindness and compassion ... real love.

You realise that each of us carries emotional wounds, each of us does the best we can, each of us tries to get our survival and emotional needs met. Sometimes we hurt or disappoint people in the process.

And it's ok. It's alright. In the end, we are all just humans ... being.

Dancing In The Rain

What if you pray every morning for the highest good to come across your path ... and set intentions for your highest benefit ... and life happens?

No matter how loving, kind and spiritual you are ... life happens. No matter how much you work to help others ... life happens. You are not exempt from the trials and tribulations of life just because you are a light-worker, loving humanitarian or a generous human being.

What do you do when the recession has decimated your income? When your romantic life seems full of struggle and arguments? When you can't see the way forward in your life? When someone you love is struck down with terminal cancer? When the sun never seems to shine and dark clouds fill the sky?

The answer? You dance in the rain! Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass ... it's about learning to dance in the rain.

Viktor Frankl M.D., Ph.D. (1905-1997) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. His wife and parents were killed in the concentration camps. Yet Viktor was able to emotionally survive and overcome because of his attitude - to find meaning in life despite suffering. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, and wrote a best-selling book called "Man's Search for Meaning".

Frankl said we can discover meaning in life in three different ways:

By creating a work (e.g. writing, cooking, building) or doing a deed (e.g. job, sport, charity). By experiencing something (like a sunset) or encountering someone (e.g. love, friendship, family). By the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering (loving and living in spite of challenges and suffering).

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