Grief

Today's grief is a culmination of many events, not one singular tragedy.

As part of the human experience, we tend to view grief through the
lens of death of a loved one or divorce. But the reality is, there are
many more causes of grief. Individuals finding themselves in a grief
crisis after an immediate event often believe that singular event is
the cause of their distress. However, each grief or loss event,
realized or forgotten, stacks together. This last occurrence was the
straw that broke the camel's back and is a culmination of all of the
individual's grief and loss events.

In this booklet, Dr. Richard DeFord dives into the numerous causes
of grief that many of us are carrying without even realizing their
impacts on us. Our lives lack the space, or resilience, to take on one
more loss, and so when that loss happens, we find ourselves in a
mental or even spiritual crisis.

By outlining many common causes of grief, Dr. DeFord provides an
opportunity to expand the reader's understanding of the effects of
losses that they have experienced in their lives and provide insights
into why the reader may feel like they are in crisis over this most
recent event in their lives.