Grief is so hard to deal with and due to the COVID-19 pandemic our worldwide community is going to be dealing with a lot of grief and loss. What is going to be especially hard is that some of our normal rituals around grief (wakes and funerals) are also going to be disrupted due to social distancing, so people may experience more difficulties without having expected closure rituals. My intention in this blog post is to compile resources you could use with your children to help them cope with gr
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Grief is so hard to deal with and due to the COVID-19 pandemic our worldwide community is going to be dealing with a lot of grief and loss. What is going to be especially hard is that some of our normal rituals around grief (wakes and funerals) are also going to be disrupted due to social distancing, so people may experience more difficulties without having expected closure rituals. My intention in this blog post is to compile resources you could use with your children to help them cope with gr
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This clipart bundle depicts Fingerprint Pals images of Coping with Loss, Grief, Divorce, and Family Changes. The clipart sets included in this bundle are Dealing with Loss and Grief and Coping with Divorce & Family Changes. This clipart would be great to use with vocabulary flash cards, bulletin boards, worksheets, games, etc. that cover coping strategies. What is included? In this bundle you’ll find 31 full color images and 31 black and white images; 62 images total. All images are saved at 300 DPI in PNG files with transparent backgrounds. Here are the sets of clipart included in this bundle: Dealing with Loss and Grief Clipart 17 color/17 B&W; 34 total images Fingerprint Pals Divorce and Family Changes 14 color/14 B&W; 28 total images This bundle includes zip (compressed) files. Before purchasing, please check that you are able to open zip files and ensure that your zip opening software is updated. Also please understand this is a digital product, so no physical item will be provided. Terms of Use This clipart is the property of G is for Graphics and is intended for personal, educational and commercial small business use. If using commercially, or in a freebie, credit to my store by a link is required and appreciated. They CANNOT be shared or distributed as .png/image files. Click here to view my full TOU.
This Coping with Grief Game, now in digital and printable formats, was designed as a Grief Counseling therapeutic intervention tool. Not only useful for rapport-building and starting meaningful conversations, it is a non-threatening assessment tool and developmentally appropriate way to help young process the hard work of grieving when they lose a loved one. The prompts invite players to reflect on and build coping skills, to express hard-to-talk-about feelings and thoughts about death and loss, and to remember and honor their relationship with the person who has died. Now Available in Google Slides™ Digital Format for Distance Learning This Coping with Grief game is now offered in Google Slides™. You can use this interactive game during teletherapy and virtual small groups. For a Free "Sample Example" of how the digital game works, please download my Conversation Starter Connect Game! Ways to Use The Coping with Grief Card and Connect Game: ✏️In Individual + Small Groups for Social Emotional Learning Support and Skills Practice ️✏️In Individual Counseling Sessions as an Assessment Tool. Plus, the actual act of playing provides insight into children's social skills, decision-making process, frustration tolerance, level of respect for rules & boundaries, and problem-solving abilities. ✏️In Family therapy WHAT'S INCLUDED: Digital ✔ The Coping with Grief Connect Game on Google Slides™ Printable: ✔ TWO sets of TheCoping with Grief Card Game: in both color AND black and white. So if you don't have access to a color printer, no problem! You can download and print in black and white too! Instead of color, players match up cards with shapes! ✔ Detailed Game Directions ✔ Tips on how to use the Coping with Grief Card Game as a Therapeutic Intervention ✔ Over 75 Questions & Prompts ✔ Action Cards ✔ Pass Tickets How to Play The Digital Coping with Grief Connect Game Taking turns, players/teams choose a number based on the spot they would like to place their pawn. Then answer the corresponding question/prompt. Move game pawn to cover the number just answered. Players continue to take turns answering questions/prompts and moving their pawn pieces until the first player/team has completed a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line of either 4 or 5 in a row. How to Play The Printable Coping with Grief Card Game In the spirit of other popular shedding-type card games, the player to get rid of all their cards first by wins. Players try to "match" the top card in the discard pile, by either laying down the same number, color (or shape, if using the black & white set), or type of action card. If the card contains a question or prompt, that player shares their response. The player may choose to decline responding by using 1 of their 2 Pass Tickets. Actions cards add fun twists and turns to the game. Actions include: ➔ TAKE 3: The next person in line must take 3 cards before taking their turn. ➔ ROTATE RIGHT / ROTATE LEFT: All players pass on, or "rotate," their cards to either the left or right, so that everyone exchanges hands with each other. ➔ GO AGAIN: Player gets to "go again," gaining an additional turn. ➔ FREE!: Player who discards a FREE card is "free" to choose a new color (or shape) for the discard pile and then discard an additional card based on the color (or shape) they changed it to. ➔ FREE + SPY!: Player who discards a FREE+SPY card can spy on one player by peeking at their cards and then is "free" to choose a new color (or shape) for the discard pile and then discard an additional card based on the color (or shape) they changed it to.
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These uplifting quotes for when someone dies unexpectedly will help those in mourning process their grief.
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This Coping with Grief Game, now in digital and printable formats, was designed as a Grief Counseling therapeutic intervention tool. Not only useful for rapport-building and starting meaningful conversations, it is a non-threatening assessment tool and developmentally appropriate way to help young process the hard work of grieving when they lose a loved one. The prompts invite players to reflect on and build coping skills, to express hard-to-talk-about feelings and thoughts about death and loss, and to remember and honor their relationship with the person who has died. Now Available in Google Slides™ Digital Format for Distance Learning This Coping with Grief game is now offered in Google Slides™. You can use this interactive game during teletherapy and virtual small groups. For a Free "Sample Example" of how the digital game works, please download my Conversation Starter Connect Game! Ways to Use The Coping with Grief Card and Connect Game: ✏️In Individual + Small Groups for Social Emotional Learning Support and Skills Practice ️✏️In Individual Counseling Sessions as an Assessment Tool. Plus, the actual act of playing provides insight into children's social skills, decision-making process, frustration tolerance, level of respect for rules & boundaries, and problem-solving abilities. ✏️In Family therapy WHAT'S INCLUDED: Digital ✔ The Coping with Grief Connect Game on Google Slides™ Printable: ✔ TWO sets of TheCoping with Grief Card Game: in both color AND black and white. So if you don't have access to a color printer, no problem! You can download and print in black and white too! Instead of color, players match up cards with shapes! ✔ Detailed Game Directions ✔ Tips on how to use the Coping with Grief Card Game as a Therapeutic Intervention ✔ Over 75 Questions & Prompts ✔ Action Cards ✔ Pass Tickets How to Play The Digital Coping with Grief Connect Game Taking turns, players/teams choose a number based on the spot they would like to place their pawn. Then answer the corresponding question/prompt. Move game pawn to cover the number just answered. Players continue to take turns answering questions/prompts and moving their pawn pieces until the first player/team has completed a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line of either 4 or 5 in a row. How to Play The Printable Coping with Grief Card Game In the spirit of other popular shedding-type card games, the player to get rid of all their cards first by wins. Players try to "match" the top card in the discard pile, by either laying down the same number, color (or shape, if using the black & white set), or type of action card. If the card contains a question or prompt, that player shares their response. The player may choose to decline responding by using 1 of their 2 Pass Tickets. Actions cards add fun twists and turns to the game. Actions include: ➔ TAKE 3: The next person in line must take 3 cards before taking their turn. ➔ ROTATE RIGHT / ROTATE LEFT: All players pass on, or "rotate," their cards to either the left or right, so that everyone exchanges hands with each other. ➔ GO AGAIN: Player gets to "go again," gaining an additional turn. ➔ FREE!: Player who discards a FREE card is "free" to choose a new color (or shape) for the discard pile and then discard an additional card based on the color (or shape) they changed it to. ➔ FREE + SPY!: Player who discards a FREE+SPY card can spy on one player by peeking at their cards and then is "free" to choose a new color (or shape) for the discard pile and then discard an additional card based on the color (or shape) they changed it to.
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My brain has been playing weird tricks on me lately. Tonight as the usual highlight (and lowlight) reel of everything that transpired ran through my head, it almost felt like I was watching a movie. "Lifetime Movies presents: the tragic story of the girl who lost her boyfriend to heroin when she had no idea he was using." As the flashbacks continued, I experienced the usual feelings of horror, shock, and sadness. But strangely, it was like I was feeling these feelings out of sympathy for someone else. How awful for that girl. What a tragic experience for her to go through. Thank God that's not me. Not my life. As the story continued to play out in my mind, I tried to get myself to connect to it. I couldn't. These were my memories, my life, my trauma, why did I feel so detached from it all? Was this all just a dream? Was Blake just that handsome older guy I barely knew from high school? Did everything between us even happen? It's terrifying how my mind seemed to be distorting my reality. Why? I've read all about the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. I initially thought that the way they are listed is the usual order they occur. Based on that assumption, I thought that I must have skipped the "denial" stage. From the horrific moment the office manager pulled me out from lunch so my best friend could deliver the news about Blake's death, I knew he was gone and never coming back. I felt a million different things, but I never refused to admit to myself that the overdose happened. But I'm beginning to realize that denial comes in all different forms at unexpected times. This "trick" my brain has started playing on me, I think, is actually a form of denial. The underlying motivation of denial is that maybe if I don't acknowledge this is my pain, I can pretend I'm ok. My brain seemed to be trying to protect me through disassociation. Being the obsessive investigator that I've always been, I started researching online again about the stages of grief and loss. Is what I'm going through normal? What I found out was that this 5 stages of grief model is actually seen as outdated and not true for most people. Grief is typically a back-and-fourth between the five listed stages as well as several other phases. This diagram makes so much more sense to me. I appreciate how it acknowledges that grief isn't chronologically linear. There are more than just five stages and they can occur concurrently or in no particular order. The beginning spiral section recognizes that at any point, these feelings can be revisited (and sometimes again and again). It's not like I went through the anger stage and got to wipe my hands of it afterward: "Ok, I was mad at Blake for a day for lying to me and doing drugs, but now I've accepted it. Anger: check!" Just because I had an angry moment and it passed doesn't mean I won't re-experience that anger later. The same thing goes for depression and now denial too. Like I've come to realize in the past couple weeks, everything is coming in waves. There are times when my heart is filled with hope, days that my body gives up, minutes that feel like hours of panic, bouts of anger, quiet thoughts of guilt, moments of peace etc. etc. etc. There is no finish line with a banner that reads "Acceptance! You've made it!" Grieving is a process, and one that it's not neatly confined into five orderly steps.
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