What is legitimate grief?  Who decides what losses we may rightly mourn, for what length of time and how?  It is my belief that grief is in the eye of the beholder, meaning that as human beings we grieve in direct proportion to what the loss means to us.  For one person, the loss of a job may be more painful than the loss of a spouse, or vice versa.  For another person, they may mourn the death of a beloved pet for years, but not feel as troubled by a long term health problem.  Society has un...

This article started as a much shorter post on my Blog “Recovery Matters” in February 2010.  Chronic grief is a serious road block to mental health and happiness.  Read on to learn how counselling can help you regain your psychological well being if you are stuck in “the pain that won’t go away”.

There's much debate in the research community about the usefulness of grief counselling.  The debate revolves around whether grief counselling is necessary for recovery, or if it even does...