Part II - Body Grief: Losing parts of ourselves and our identity before, during and after cancer treatment

Learn about body grief and ways to cope with it. We will also explore methods to heal from this challenging experience.

1. Part II -Body Grief:
Losing parts of ourselves
and our identity before,
during and after cancer
treatment

2. Goals
The goals of this
workshop are to provide
you with:
knowledge on how body
grief may be present in
your life
adaptable emotional
coping tools to face loss
and change
activities you may wish
to incorporate as you
grieve the loss of your
body parts and identity

3. What is grief?
•Variety of "definitions"
•Often "comes in waves"
•Symptomsmay be
•sadness, yearning, anxiety, confusion,
obsession, guilt, anger, loss of focus,
disruption of sleep, appetite changes.
❖Depressionis a bit different but there
are layovers.
❖The main differences are: ongoing
despair, worthlessness, hopelessness,
possiblesuicidal
thoughts,pervasive persistent.

4. Areas of loss
PHYSICAL EMOTIONAL COGNITIVE SPIRITUAL FINANCIAL

5. Reflection Prompts
What has been the hardest thing
about losing _____?
What do you miss most about
_____?
How are you different now than you
were before you lost _____?
What has helped you the most in
your grief?

6. Rituals for Loss &
Grief
•A sequence of activity (often symbolic)
•Involves gestures, words, actions,
and/or revereditems
•May be religious, spiritual, cultural,
nature-based
•Examples:
oWashing, Farwell ceremony, Spy
Paper
•What areyourrituals around grief?

7. Group Experience:Tending to
your Garden

8. Discussion
&
Questions

9. Next Workshop:
•Grief Series Part III -
Cumulative Grief: Learning
how to honor the many
losses that occur in a brief
period of time
•Friday, June 14th at 12PM
EST