Abstract
Patients living with a cancer diagnosis can benefit from this technique to help them identify living losses, share their unique meaning, and explore how to balance sorrow and joy in a life lived with life-threatening illness. Cancer journey is filled with a wide range of intangible and tangible living loss. For families living with cancer, sorrow ebbs and flows along with illness-related milestones and transitions and patients and loved ones are not always emotionally further complicating the exploration of painful loss Since cancer-related losses are often chronic it is also useful to have a way to contain them so that a transition toward active living can be made. Honestly honoring loss and grief can help patients integrate their losses and open more internal space for orienting toward hope, joy, and thriving despite cancer. The Loss Box technique gently supports patients in honoring all parts of themselves as cancer survivors and can be a powerful salve for wounded and weary souls.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Techniques of Grief Therapy |
Subtitle of host publication | Assessment and Intervention |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Pages | 109-112 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781317433026 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138905917 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Psychology