{"id":84,"date":"2009-03-02T15:14:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T15:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2015-11-24T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T01:23:00","slug":"grief-loss-separation-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/grief-loss-separation-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Grief = loss, separation anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few insightful excerpts from recent reading:<\/p>\n<p><em>Grief is the (normal) human emotional response to loss. It is a common part of human experience and may produce growth. We can lose people, places, objects, relationships, and even ideas. Some losses may not be actual, but\u00a0anticipated, or a perceived loss. (25) Acute grief looks remarkably similar to a classic anxiety attack (same physical\u00a0symptoms). It is similar to the feelings felt in fear. In grief one fears the loss of self through separation, and experiences separation anxiety. (28) <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is a function of attachment. It can be understood also as our emotions catching up with our reality. (38) The more we can love the more we can grieve. Our <strong>abnormal<\/strong><\/em><em> attachments show up (caused by an improper process of \u00a0grieving) as permanent emotional detachment\u00a0or heightened attachment. (30)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>R. Scott Sullender, &#8220;Grief and Growth: Pastoral Resources for Emotional and Spiritual Growth&#8221; Paulist Press, 1985.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thbloflicode-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0809126524&#038;asins=0809126524&#038;linkId=PC2OG2RSTDJ5KRT6&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\n<em><strong>Have you lost or grieved anything lately? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Feel free to leave your thoughts or comments about grief or loss.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>surprising and helpful explanation of grief\/loss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[121,232,3805,5659,5653,1114,1184,1269,1347,34,1763,1987,5403,48,2074,2077,2493,2494,2510,4770,2857,2859,4946,4628,3184,74,3429],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","tag-abnormal","tag-anxiety","tag-attack","tag-comments","tag-emotional","tag-emotions","tag-experience","tag-feelings","tag-free","tag-grief","tag-in","tag-leave","tag-looks","tag-loss","tag-lost","tag-love","tag-pastoral","tag-pastoral-resources","tag-paulist-press","tag-process","tag-resources","tag-response","tag-separation-anxiety","tag-show","tag-spiritual","tag-spiritual-growth","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10772,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/10772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}