Hello,
I am looking for any advice on dealing with anticipatory Grief? My older sister has had a terminal cancer diagnosis and, selfishly, my prevailing thought is how am I going to spend, potentially, the next year feeling like this. Some days, I'm devoid of any emotions, and some days, emotions are so intense and out of the blue, and at the most inappropriate times!!
Hi Mings
Have you seen our blog post on coping with anticipatory grief? Sometimes of course our grief is for the life we thought we would have rather than what we actually have.
You might also like to look at your feelings when someone has cancer. For me it is my wife who has cancer and at one point I really struggled and ended up doing a living with less stress course, a key part of that was learning to appreciate what we have rather than thinking too much about a future that we cannot really control
<<hugs>>
Steve
