{"id":165,"date":"2020-03-26T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=165"},"modified":"2020-03-29T17:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:36:35","slug":"that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/26\/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"That Discomfort You\u2019re Feeling Is Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If we can name it, perhaps we can manage it. We turned to David Kessler for ideas on how to do that. Kessler is the world\u2019s foremost expert on grief. He co-wrote with Elisabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief through the Five Stages of Loss. His new book adds another stage to the process, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief. Kessler also has worked for a decade in a three-hospital system in Los Angeles. He served on their biohazards team. His volunteer work includes being an LAPD Specialist Reserve for traumatic events as well as having served on the Red Cross\u2019s disaster services team. He is the founder of\u00a0www.grief.com, which has over 5 million visits yearly from 167 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Kessler shared his thoughts on why it\u2019s important to acknowledge the grief you may be feeling, how to manage it, and how he believes we will find meaning in it. The conversation is lightly edited for clarity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2020\/03\/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>That Discomfort You\u2019re Feeling Is Grief<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/mentalhealth\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#mentalhealth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/grief\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#grief<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we can name it, perhaps we can manage it. We turned to David Kessler for ideas on how to do that. Kessler is the world\u2019s foremost expert on grief. He co-wrote with Elisabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief through the Five Stages of Loss. His new book adds another &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/26\/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[52,37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}