Summarised from an article by Alexandra Kennedy, entitled 'Your relationship needn't die', in AHP Perspective (May '97).
The painful process of grieving can be helped along by setting up a kind of sanctuary or shrine to the deceased, where one can go regularly, to honour the loved one lost and to acknowledge the personal pain that their dying has caused. Psychotherapist Alexandra Kennedy did this spontaneously for herself after losing her father, and suggests that one can put up a kind of altar, with photographs, candles, flowers.
Using the sanctuary for at least 15 minutes a day, she advises, is a consoling aid to absorbing the overwhelming emotions of grief, and, by providing time to 'check in' with oneself, ensures that one is 'going through' rather than avoiding the necessary but painful process.
Alexandra Kennedy is the author of Losing a Parent (HarperCollins, 1991), and Your Loved One Lives On Within You (Berkley/Putnam, 1997).
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