What is Anxious Grief?
- Drawing connection between anxiety and grief
- When is anxiety grief-related?
- Anxiety, grief, and anxious grief
- The five stages of grief plus the missing one: anxiety
- How long does anxious grief last?
Techniques for Addressing Clients’ Grief-Related Anxiety
- Assessment and identification of anxious grief
- Recognizing masked anxiety symptoms
- Strategies to normalize anxiety and panic
- Helping clients get out from underneath their anxious grief:
- Rewriting the story of loss
- Understanding the fallacy of worry
- Making amends to release guilt-driven anxiety
- Taking inventory
- The gift (and power) of writing
- Mindfulness for retraining the anxious brain
- Meaning-making and connection


