How to Cope With COMPLICATED GRIEF When Estranged From Your Adult Child (Ten Steps)

Have you been grieving over the loss of your estranged cut-off adult child? Learn how to cope with 10 helpful tips in this video!

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How To Cope When Cut Off From Adult Child When Symptoms Are Present:

1. Find a mental health professional who specializes in grief bereavement counseling and estrangement.
2. See your primary care physician and ensure you are in good physical health.
3. Be informed about complicated grief and its treatment and estrangement.
4. Explore and process thoughts and emotions. Emotions and heightened feelings are not processed, hindering healing.
5. Improve coping skills, and reduce feelings of guilt and blame.
6. Be prepared for reactions to reminders such as holidays or family events.
7. Prioritize being with those who love and value you.
8. Practice self-care.
9. Do self-talk that includes adjusting to the loss and finding acceptance with a redefined life without your estranged loved one.
10. Be prepared to deal with reminders by starting new traditions, staying connected to others, and planning a distraction.

RECOMMENDED READING:

○ Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them by Karl A. Pillmer → https://amzn.to/3AVWttQ

○ Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict by Joshua Coleman → https://amzn.to/3uRh4OH

○ Family Estrangement: A matter of perspective by Kylies Agllias → https://amzn.to/3gkBwz0

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ABOUT THIS VIDEO:
Estrangement from an adult child can feel like an assault.Being cut-off can elicit feelings like you have been "stabbed in the heart," "crushed," and "torn apart." If you’ve been grieving over your estranged adult child that has gone on way too long, you may be suffering from complicated grief. While normal grief is undoubtedly uncomfortable and shock, bargaining, denial, depression, guilt, and acceptance, complicated grief is a maladaptive form of grief. In this video, you will learn TEN TIPS to help you cope.

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DISCLAIMERS:

ESTRANGEMENT AND ABUSE: When considering the possibility of reconciling with an emotionally and or physically abusive great care is required. Reconciling may only be possible if the abuser is willing to work with a family therapist. When there is abuse, individuals estrange out of necessity and self-preservation. Consider if it is safe to resume a relationship with an abusive family member without evidence that the abuser has changed or takes responsibility for their harmful actions.

RESOURCES BY STATE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN:
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National Domestic Violence Hotline - https://www.thehotline.org/

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