Stages Of Grief Essay
“Life can never again be the way it was.
If you have learned and grown, you can never be the same.”
From the opening activity of remembering our first loss, to the closing event of watching the Memorial of Veronica; I learned so much about myself, the way I grieve, the ways others grieve, and the ways children grieve. I think that the way the class was organized into 3 sections was extremely beneficial to me. Starting with what we were most familiar with, us and our grief; moving through the way children grieve, and then finally things we can do to facilitate healthy grief with our students was an important journey, and enriched the learning experience of the challenging subject of grief.
Until the first class I had never really thought about the way I grieved or from whom I learned to grieve. I had never heard the stages of grief articulated and explained; and never really knew that they were our body’s way of dealing with the pain. I think that grief is a challenging subject for many adults because there is no cook book formula to get from the date of a loss to the date of feeling better. No one can say in exactly forty three days this feeling will be gone and your life will go back to normal as it was before the loss. I think that people can move through the stages of …show more content…
Being aware that there are stages and that not everyone will experience the stages in the same order and for the same amount of time is extremely important. Furthermore, having some knowledge so that we can help students move from feeling hopeless and responsible to peaceful acceptance will be an asset to me as a classroom teacher. Finally, I reflect back to the quote with which I started the paper, I know that my life can never be the same because of the knowledge that I gained by taking this class, and that children will never be the same after they suffer a tragic loss in their
If you have learned and grown, you can never be the same.”
From the opening activity of remembering our first loss, to the closing event of watching the Memorial of Veronica; I learned so much about myself, the way I grieve, the ways others grieve, and the ways children grieve. I think that the way the class was organized into 3 sections was extremely beneficial to me. Starting with what we were most familiar with, us and our grief; moving through the way children grieve, and then finally things we can do to facilitate healthy grief with our students was an important journey, and enriched the learning experience of the challenging subject of grief.
Until the first class I had never really thought about the way I grieved or from whom I learned to grieve. I had never heard the stages of grief articulated and explained; and never really knew that they were our body’s way of dealing with the pain. I think that grief is a challenging subject for many adults because there is no cook book formula to get from the date of a loss to the date of feeling better. No one can say in exactly forty three days this feeling will be gone and your life will go back to normal as it was before the loss. I think that people can move through the stages of …show more content…
Being aware that there are stages and that not everyone will experience the stages in the same order and for the same amount of time is extremely important. Furthermore, having some knowledge so that we can help students move from feeling hopeless and responsible to peaceful acceptance will be an asset to me as a classroom teacher. Finally, I reflect back to the quote with which I started the paper, I know that my life can never be the same because of the knowledge that I gained by taking this class, and that children will never be the same after they suffer a tragic loss in their