Lisa Mackay, Specialist

My Experience

Lisa really made me understand how the process of bereavement works

My Experience

New perspectives. Good concept.

My Experience

very helpful.

My Experience

Taking the grief recovery program when I did I feel was timely. I was feeling 'stuck' in grief. Doing life - running a business, involved with family, taking care of our acreage, taking care of aging parents....but I wasn't taking care of me, and I could not see how to allow myself to do that. How to start living for me, creating my new future that I didn't want or ask for. The most helpful in the program was the relationship graph...the reality of "enshrinement" because of how much I loved and still do love my husband. Although I don't begrudge/regret doing that, because there's just no way I couldn't do it - he truly was my amazing, but it still helped me realize that I put that before myself and now more than ever can be harmful - interfering with my healing and rebuilding my life. And of course, the 'letter' allowed me to voice things to another person that I had not allowed myself to do, some even to myself. Vocally forgiving him, and myself. I knew going into this program that it wouldn't be a magic pill and everything would be okay thereafter. I have slipped back into the hole periodically since completing it, but it feels like the time in between is increasing, and the time spent in that level of pain is less. It has been significant step in my grief recovery which I define best as capacity to carry my grief in a manner that I can have a happy life again.

My Experience

So the program wouldn’t let me just select the outstanding star. I feel like I have been able to move forward and not allow divorce continue to control me. Reflection allowed me to process and discover in what ways I was responsible for the issues in my marriage as well as in what areas I had to let go and forgive to move on. I still have some bad days but not nearly as many as before and I’m able to come back to my work in this program to help center me.