The Grief Recovery Method® is the most comprehensive Grief Recovery education and certification you will find. Recovery Method helps grievers deal with those things they wish might have been different or better. It gives them the chance to address their dreams and hopes for the future, which is not the future they had planned. It helps them address the words left unspoken. It helps them with the lost relationship that they thought would cause them pain for the rest of their lives.
If you’re like most people you relate grief to death. However, there are over 40 types of loss people can experience in their lifetime. Since grief is normal and natural, we don’t want to confuse it with personality disorders. The Grief Recovery Method is the only researched based program that handles loss. It helps you get past the pain and hold on to the good stuff. We're taught how to acquire things, not what to do when we lose them."
-Founder, John James-
Grief
Two of the definitions of grief we use are from The Grief Recovery Handbook:
Grief is the normal and natural reaction to loss.
Grief is the conflicting feelings caused by the end of or change in a familiar pattern of behavior.
Unresolved grief is also about the unrealized hopes, dreams, and expectations we had for the relationship. It is also about undelivered communications of an emotional nature. It is the goal of this program to help you discover and complete what was left emotionally incomplete for you by a death, a divorce, or any other loss.
Recovery
Recovery from loss is achieved by a series of small and correct choices made by the griever.
The actions incorporated in the Grief Recovery Method® lead you through a healing process, which has a beginning, middle and end. The program consists of step-by-step lessons which are focused and progressive. Taking these actions lead you (the griever) to resolve the conflicting emotions surrounding the loss.
It is our job, along with the Grief Recovery Handbook, to explain those action choices to you, and guide you in taking them.
Completeness
All grief is experienced at 100%. There are no half grievers and we do not compare grief.
Completeness is the result of having delivered those emotional communications that either we never made, or we felt were never heard, or that need to be said again, with someone hearing us say them. It gives us the ability to say goodbye to any pain, which may be limiting us from fond memories, and say goodbye to any unmet hopes, dreams, and expectations about the future.