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Our resource this week: a short article interviewing Dr. Gordon Neufeld, a clinical psychologist who specializes in working with children and author of the bestselling book: Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers, on the importance of accepting feelings of sadness and loss, from Reader’s Digest.
Sadness is “a bridge that allows us to say goodbye to the
old reality and adapt to the new. “
We should embrace our sadness and commit to feeling it.
Letting ourselves feel sadness is an emotional, unconscious process where you let yourself grieve and leads to adaptation to change.
In our culture, sadness is seen as something to run away from: “We have become afraid of the very emotion that was meant to save us.”
Most of us are experiencing sadness and loss as we confront the reality of living life with COVID. What a great reminder to accept and work through those feelings rather than distract, avoid, and run from them.
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