Grief Counselling
Change and loss come in many forms throughout our lives - there doesn't have to be a death
for you to feel bereft, a deep sense of sadness, loss or grief.
And when that happens we're here for you.
Change and loss come in many forms throughout our lives - there doesn't have to be a death
for you to feel bereft, a deep sense of sadness, loss or grief.
And when that happens we're here for you.
life
life
/laɪf/ (say luyf) noun (plural lives)
the condition which distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic objects and dead organisms. The distinguishing manifestations of life are: growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
- Macquarie Dictionary, 2022
grief
/grif/ (say greef)
grief
/grif/ (say greef)
noun 1. keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
2. a cause or occasion of keen distress or sorrow.
[Middle English, from Old French, from grever GRIEVE]
verb (grieved, grieving)
–verb (i) 1. to feel grief; sorrow.
–verb (t) 2. to distress mentally; cause to feel grief or sorrow.
3. Obsolete to oppress or wrong.
[Middle English greve(n), from Old French grever, from Latin gravāre weigh down]
–griever, noun
–grieving, adjective
–grievingly, adverb
loss
/los/ (say los)
loss
/los/ (say los)
noun 1. detriment or disadvantage from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
2. a being deprived of or coming to be without something that one has had: loss of friends.
3. a bereavement.
4. the accidental or inadvertent losing of something dropped, misplaced, or of unknown whereabouts: to discover the loss of a document.
5. a losing by defeat, or failure to win: the loss of a bet.
6. failure to preserve or maintain: loss of speed.
7. destruction or ruin: the loss of Coventry Cathedral in World War II.
8. Commerce failure to recover the costs of a transaction or the like, in the form of benefits derived.
[Middle English; Old English los destruction, loss; related to LOSE]
bereave
/bəˈriv/ (say buh'reev)
bereave
/bəˈriv/ (say buh'reev)
verb (t) (bereaved or bereft, bereaving)
1. (usually in passive) to deprive ruthlessly, especially of hope, joy, etc.: bereft of all their lands.
2. (usually in passive) to make desolate through loss, especially by death: bereaved of their mother.
3. Obsolete to take away by violence.
[Middle English bereve(n), Old English berēafian, from BE- + rēafian rob]
–bereavement, noun
death
death
/dɛθ/ (say deth). noun
the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of the vital functions of an animal or plant.
- Macquarie Dictionary, 2022
