Art Therapy: Emotional Processing & Therapeutic Support Worksheets

GROWING AROUND GRIEF

Growing around grief is a model created by grief counselor Lois Tonkin. It suggests that over time, your grief will stay the same size. However, your life will begin to grow around it. New life experiences will start forming, and you can live your life outside your grief. So while you will still be embracing your loss, you will also begin to move forward.

People think that grief

Slowly gets smaller

with time

to grow bigger around it.

in reality, grief stays the same size

but slowly life begins