Elephant in The Room

Psychotherapy & Counselling

helping you adapt to life after loss

Growing around grief – a different way to understand loss

Dr Lois Tonkin's Growing Around Grief model. People think that grief slowly gets smaller with time. In reality, grief stays the same size but slowly life begins to grow bigger around it.

Growing around grief – a different way to understand loss There are a number of models to help us understand grief but I’m going to nail my colours to the post: I’m a particular fan of Tonkin’s ‘Growing around grief’ model. That said, there are many models of grief out there and no right or […]