Common Symptoms of Incomplete Grief

        The natural three-level healing process of grieving broken bonds (losses) can be blocked by psychological wounds + unawareness + lack of inner and social  per-missions + a low-nurturance environment. Incomplete grief seems to be a wide-spread personal and family stressor. It promotes a range of psychological, physical, and relationship problems until the causes above are permanently reduced. Com-mon symptoms (vs. "proof") of these causes include...

Chronic or anniversary "depression"

Chronic denials, repressions,   minimizing, and/or "forgetting"

Chronic illness/es, headaches, and
mood, sleep, and digestive "problems"

Extreme reactions to others' losses

Notably avoiding certain topics, people, places, activities, or mementos

Chronic irritability and rage, and some muscle spasms

Addictions, including sugar, fat, tobacco, and over-activity

Obesity and some eating disorders

Obsessively enshrining or purging mementos of lost things

Chronic emotional numbness
or "flatness"

FAamily Lesson 3 focuses on freeing blocked grief, and growing pro-grief families.

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