Have you ever sat with a loved one who has suffered a serious loss months or years earlier and wondered why they can’t “get over it?” We see paralyzing depression or crippling anxiety, robbing our loved ones of a fulfilling life.
It’s so heart-breaking to see them suffer, and it seems so needless. We think, “All they have to do is move forward with their life.” But telling them so only worsens it. It feels to them like we are pressuring them to do the impossible. No one want’s them to get over it more than they do, yet, as time passes, it becomes only more discouraging. Why is that? And what can be done to help?
The longer a person remains stuck, the more it seems they will never recover. And yet, that is most definitely not true. We can get over negative losses, if we know what to do.
In this workshop, Bill explains why we sometimes get stuck emotionally—what is going on in the brain, and what to do to about it.