Episode 12: About Grief

We are all grieving to some degree, it's impossible to be human and not experience loss (losing my keys, my hair, and maybe my mind), and grief is a natural and unavoidable process. So how we grieve when dealing with cancer is really important.

There are different stages and tasks for working through grief, depending on which researcher and model you look at. Grief reactions look different at different points in time. 

A lot of people facing serious illness also have anticipatory grief for losses which haven't yet occurred. If you're seriously ill then it's likely that the people you are closest to will also be dealign with anticipatory grief, this is a natural impact of dealing with serious illness. It's useful to know what this looks like and have some ways to make sure it doesn't negatively affect your relationships. 

I think I'm going to start anticipatorily grieving the loss of this cancer...

Please be gentle with each other.