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Once the person has acknowledged ambiguous loss, what steps can be taken to improve the situation?

Rural Wellness Author

08/29/2024 Added

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Once the person has acknowledged ambiguous loss, what steps can be taken to improve the situation?

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[00:00:00.000]There's many things that can be done and I will want to say about the process in
[00:00:17.080]this is not linear. You're not going to move from step A to step B to step C. It
[00:00:22.800]may be you move to step A to step C or if there is a step C. This is all kind of
[00:00:27.720]this again is what makes it complicated and kind of messy. We want people to name
[00:00:32.940]what the loss is. That's one part of this. It's a kind of a recipe I would say John
[00:00:37.980]and the ingredients I'm going to give you here really are just a part about a
[00:00:40.980]recipe to help with healing and coping. One of the challenges with ambiguous
[00:00:45.900]loss is that it can become frozen. You can't move on. The status quo has
[00:00:52.440]been familiar and comforting but moving on is really challenging. So naming
[00:00:57.480]feelings is an important thing. Naming the loss, making some kind of
[00:01:02.800]meaning of kind of the new experience or the new situation is important. So
[00:01:09.280]rethinking identity. So if a farmer has a disability
[00:01:14.120]or has experienced an illness because of the farm, renaming or rethinking their identity as a cattleman or as a crops person,
[00:01:23.970]those can be things that need to happen.
[00:01:26.170]Having a sense of hope, getting a sense of hope is where we want people to kind of maybe come down further line,
[00:01:33.230]but even that's even important in the middle of it.
[00:01:35.690]Keeping a sense of humor is always important.
[00:01:38.670]So sometimes there's some things that are just funny.
[00:01:41.410]If you're experiencing or a caregiver for somebody with dementia, sometimes you have to laugh when somebody says something funny
[00:01:48.990]because you need that sense of humor to keep light of the situation.
[00:01:53.350]Building community and talking with your peers and support groups is extremely important.
[00:01:59.550]Saying things out loud helps it become more real.
[00:02:02.850]It helps validate that and is an important part of that.
[00:02:05.950]Taking care of yourself, there's a variety of ways that can happen for people.
[00:02:11.390]So all of these are part of that important recipe in working to kind of move on or not becoming stuck in the grief.
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