Grief Archives : Kate Murphy Therapy
Kate Murphy, LCSW specializes in working with people suffering from anxiety and depression, and provides couples therapy including premarital counseling in the Atlanta metro area of Norcross, GA at the Pathway Center for Psychotherapy.
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Grief

Adoption Loss: When Grief is Suffocated When someone we love dies, grief can feel suffocating. The fact that we will never talk or touch the person we hold dear again is overwhelming. It is hard to assimilate the loss of a...

Ambiguous Loss: Living with the Pain of Uncertainty Before I was a therapist, I had not heard the term ambiguous loss. I know now that I experienced it. Ambiguous means inexplicable. These ambiguous losses of mine were deeply felt for many...

Is there something that happened in your past that you cannot stop thinking about? An incident or relationship that continues to feel deeply sad, shameful, or distressing?  The past shows up through rumination, nightmares, or flashbacks. The experience may be...

I've been thinking about adoption loss and grief. Specifically - ambiguous loss, disenfranchised grief, and uncertainty. Whew - quite a mouthful! In my mind's eye, I keep seeing stages of grief as clothing hangers that adoption loss hangs on like a...

Mother's Day Gratitude and Grief Depending on your relationship with your mother, Mother's Day may bring authentic feelings of gratitude, more complicated feelings, or both. If your mother is absent from your life, grief is likely to be experienced too. Growing up,...

I recently shared a meme from Nicole Arzt, LMFT's hilarious and irreverent Instagram feed psychotherapymemes.  It said, "Friendly reminder that therapy is still effective even when everything in life is going well. Y'all ever run a Roomba on a 'clean'...

It wasn't that bad. Four words that make a story small and minimize an experience. It can be helpful in the moment and hurtful in the long run. It wasn't that bad We reduce an experience when we say, "It wasn't that...