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The Pain Of Loss Forever

Grief is the normal and natural reaction to loss — whether that loss was caused by a death, the end of a relationship, loss of employment, or one of the significant life events that invoke this strong and overwhelming emotion.

The Grief Recovery Method is an action plan; a series of small steps that lead to the completion of the unresolved communication that is linked to the loss.

If you are struggling to move beyond the pain of grief or want to provide clients with a strategy to overcome a significant loss, you will find the solutions through our services. Book a call to find out more.

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Grief Recovery Institute of Australasia is an extension of a global program.

Our evidence-based, sequential method was developed to help people overcome grief.

As a result of our training, people describe having a “weight lifted from their shoulders” and a renewed ability to enjoy their life.

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Equip your team to help their clients transition beyond feelings of despair.

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Grief Recovery Method has been shared for almost 50 years.

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You won’t find any other evidence-based grief recovery method training.

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Go beyond understanding and take action to move beyond the pain of loss.

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Grief Recovery Method has been shared for almost 50 years.

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You don’t have to feel alone.

21 Things Not to Say to Someone Going Through a Breakup

21 Things Not to Say to Someone Going Through a Breakup

July 10, 20243 min read

21 Things Not to Say to Someone Going Through a Breakup

If you’ve ever gone through a breakup you know how painful it can be. Not only did you lose someone you opened up to emotionally, but the habits and routines you shared together changed. As if that wasn’t difficult enough, you realized the hopes, dreams, and expectations you had about your future won’t come to be. Talk about heartbreaking!

I don’t know about you, but after my breakups, I never wanted to get out of bed. I either lost my appetite or ate everything in sight (and then some). I’d play sad love songs that reminded me of my ex and spend hours and hours obsessing about what went wrong. 

Maybe you deal with breakups differently. I have friends who get so mad that they feel it physically. Some of them put on a happy face and pretend they are fine. Others try to psychologically analyze themselves and their ex. Each person experiences and reacts to a breakup in their own way.

Maybe you reached out to talk to a friend or family member but felt even more alone after. Why? Because as a society we haven’t been taught how to help people with broken hearts. We’ve been taught that when anyone is sad they need to be fixed, that an intellectual idea can cure a broken heart, that normal feelings of grief are not appropriate, that romantic relationships are replaceable or that time heals all wounds. These ideas couldn’t be more wrong.

In fact, did you know that only 19 of the 141 things a person might hear after a loss are helpful? 

Here are some of the unhelpful statements you might hear after a breakup or divorce:

  1. Get over it

  2. Don’t feel bad

  3. There are other fish in the sea

  4. It was for the best

  5. You’re too good for him

  6. You just need a distraction

  7. It just takes time

  8. You’re in the anger stage of grief

  9. I know how you feel

  10. God never gives us more than we can handle

  11. I never liked him anyway

  12. You could do better

  13. Throw yourself into work

  14. You just need to be alone for awhile

  15. You’re young, you’ll find someone else

  16. Burn his stuff

  17. Be strong for the kids

  18. It’s better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all

  19. The best way to get over someone is to date someone else as soon as possible

  20. It takes half the time you were with someone to get over a breakup

  21. Just eat some ice cream

Each of the above statement perpetuates the myths that normal feelings need to be fixed, lied about or avoided. Sadly, that keeps people stuck in their grief. 

If you have a broken heart over a relationship that ended recently or a long time ago, please know that there is nothing wrong with you. It’s natural to be sad when sad things happen! The problem is that there’s simply not enough information in mainstream society about how to recover from a breakup.

Are you grieving and interested in knowing more?

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Amanda Lambros

Amanda is the Executive Director of the Grief Recovery Institute of Australasia …but how she managed to get here is no less than pure passion, purpose and serendipity.

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