Kid Talk Flipbook For Review 05.10

Language of Grief Glossary
GRATEFUL
GRIEF
GRIEF ATTACK
GRIEF BUNDLE
GRIEF VOMIT
GRIEFWORK
HAPPY SNAPS
HEAL
HEAVEN
HOMICIDE
HOSPITAL
IMPRINTS
A glad and appreciative heart for events, circumstances, and things in your
life. Perceiving things as a “blessing.”
Our internal response – feelings, thoughts, and emotions – to loss and
separation from anyone or anything that we value. Grief can influence our
behavior so that we say and do things that are not our “normal” self.
When emotions sneak up on you, but you were OK a minute ago.
The total of our grief responses to separation and loss that have been
accumulating our whole lives – like a paper clip chain. Our whole grief
bundle can recycle with a big emotional response – too big for the little loss
that may have just happened. It will also recycle with the calendar and with
sights, smells and memories. Shrinking our grief bundle is a goal of
griefwork.
This is when grief erupts out of your mouth when you were not expecting it.
You may say things or use a tone of voice that you would not normally say if
you were not grieving.
Any activity we choose to do that helps us express the emotions of grief
including the love that we still feel for the person who died.
Close your eyes and visualize a “photo” moment of your decedent that
makes you smile. That is a “happy snap” (shot).
The pain of grief no longer dominates your life and you have the energy to
invest in living again. It does not mean that you stop loving or forget the
person who died.
The eternal abode that God has prepared for us when we believe the gospel
and choose to make Jesus the Lord of our lives.
The killing of one person by another.
A place where doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals work very hard
to make “patients” healthy and well again.
Like a fingerprint in clay, a person may make an impression or imprint on us,
especially people who are close to us. Someone may influence who we are
or who we want to become. Maybe we are like them in some way or like to
do the same things. Examples: love puppies or a sense of humor. Maybe
they said words that we will always remember. Or maybe we would just like
to make them proud of us.
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