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JWM COUNSELLING AND TRAINING What is Complicated Grief? By Joanne Wilsher-Mills Grief can be painful, overwhelming and unpredictable, whatever the circumstances.  It’s there whether we like it or not and the journey of grief will take its own course, with its own timeframe, whether we like it or not.  Grief is also a fundamental part of what it means to be a human being, as it is impossible to go through life without experiencing loss of some kind. Part of the experience of love and human connection, is to feel pain when that connection is broken.  Fortunately, the general understanding of grief seems to have shifted away from the idea that it’s something people eventually ‘get over’, to a more realistic and empathetic understanding, that it is more about something that people learn to live with and build their new life around. As Elisabeth Kübler-Ross writes in her book ‘On Grief and Grieving’: “The reality is that you will grieve forever.  You will not “get over” the loss of...