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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>What is Healthy Grieving?</strong><strong>
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<strong>Healthy Grieving</strong> is a natural process that allows you to explore your emotions for the purpose of letting them go – which leads to a healthier experience of your self and life.

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<strong>Healthy Grieving</strong> recognizes that the experience of grief and loss is a natural human experience – all humans experience grief and loss the same. However, the mainstream view on grief and loss is that “No 'one-size-fits-all' model or approach to grief is justifiable. Therapy must be tailored to the uniqueness of the person”. This traditional belief system is transcended by the <strong>Healthy Grieving programs</strong> because <em>they are specifically designed to approach grief and loss from the universal human experience of loss rather than an individual’s personal experience.</em> This novel perspective allows the programs to be effective for everybody experiencing grief and loss regardless of the uniqueness of their loss or how much time has passed. The only requirements for successful healing are that an individual has an open heart and a willingness to move forward in life.

The original <strong>Healthy Grieving Process</strong> was created by <strong>David Cope</strong> in response to his awareness that his life experiences were limited by unresolved loss and external attachments. Six years ago, the Founders of <strong>GriefFree.org</strong> began exploring the possibilities of the <strong>Healthy Grieving Process</strong> and discovered that it was dynamic in its application – effective not only in the loss of a loved one but also in all human experiences of loss. From this perspective, they realized that the human experience of loss, which often goes undetected in traditional therapy, is the underpinning of many of the psychological issues that individuals face in their life.

<strong>What makes Healthy Grieving so effective?</strong>

<strong>Healthy Grieving is the process of letting go of an attachment.</strong> An attachment is defined as anything external that gives identity and meaning to one’s life that when lost or taken away causes a deep feeling of loss and emptiness. Most attachments are so intertwined in one’s life as to be unrecognizable - they become the hidden infrastructure of one’s life.

Attachments are fundamental to the human experience - mankind’s need to create meaning in life - because of the inherent feeling of emptiness within. The role of attachments is to “fill” the emptiness so life has purpose and meaning. When an attachment is let go of from the heart with <strong>Healthy Grieving</strong>, the pain of loss and emptiness is transformed into freedom and expansion; a fuller expression of one’s self.

The traditional approach to grieving is an ambiguous approach to one of life’s most natural <strong>human experiences</strong>. Imagine the possibilities of a clear and precise way to grieve that provides the transformative experience of <strong><span style="color: #800000;"><a style="color: #800000;" title="Definitions" href="http://www.grieffree.org/the-healthy-grieving-process/the-healthy-grieving-process-definitions/">self-acceptance</a></span></strong> and <em>personal</em> growth.

<strong><span style="color: #800000;"><a style="color: #800000;" title="Understanding Healthy Grieving" href="http://www.grieffree.org/the-healthy-grieving-process/understanding-the-healthy-grieving-process/">Learn more…</a></span></strong>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id="sidebar"][/vc_column][/vc_row]