To Say Goodbye and Live On - A Metaphor for Experiencing Grief and Loss.
The set includes:
- 64 image cards (drawings);
- 32 incomplete sentence cards;
- instructions.
Before you is a deck of metaphorical associative cards, specially designed for psychological work with grief and loss. It contains 64 images metaphorically reflecting various aspects of a person's experiences during loss, and 32 auxiliary cards with unfinished phrases. When creating the deck, the authors aimed for the greatest possible polysemy of images, so many of the cards in the deck will appear to different people, or even to the same person in different states, as both resourceful and, conversely, expressing negative experiences.
Losses and bereavements are unpleasant, undesirable, but inevitable companions in our lives. Each of us, sooner or later, experiences the bitterness of loss and the pain of separation. And it is unlikely that among helping professionals there will be anyone who can avoid this topic in their work. Speaking of loss here and further, we present this concept in a broad context: not only the death of a loved one, but also any loss or sudden separation, the consequences of which are painful and undesirable for a person.
The list of topics covered by psychological work with loss is extensive: loss of a loved one (death, divorce, separation, breakup); loss of self-image; loss of a sense of security (sudden and forced changes, relocations, divorces, infidelity, entering a war zone, natural disasters); loss of the future (loss of a loved one, terminal diagnoses).
Despite everything, loss - however immense and difficult it may be - can be overcome. A completed loss (always!) leaves us stronger than we were before. It becomes, albeit sad, an experience that we can lean on and through which we grow. And even if the loss is irreparable and irreversible, there are precious memories, there is gratitude and remembrance. And there is our inner dialogue with what is dear to us, there is the continuing influence of what was lost on our lives. To say goodbye to something or someone does not mean to forget. It means accepting the irreversibility of what happened and taking the best from it. To live on.
