The Grief Recovery Handbook

PART THREE

Finding the Solution

Welcome to the third part of this handbook. The solution is made up of five actions you must take in order to complete the pain caused by significant emotional loss. The actions that follow will require open-mindedness, much willingness, and courage. These actions and their meanings are:

  1. Gaining awareness—that an incomplete emotional relationship exists.
  2. Accepting responsibility—that in part you are the cause of the incompleteness.
  3. Identifying recovery communications—that you have not delivered.
  4. Taking actions—to communicate them.
  5. Moving beyond loss—saying good-bye to undelivered communications and to pain.