{"id":1062,"date":"2026-04-24T05:49:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:58:07","slug":"finding-meaning-after-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/finding-meaning-after-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Meaning After Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many people face loss and experience grief in different ways. They move through related feelings and often feel lost. A loss can come in different ways.<br><br>Awareness of this topic and how to work through it can help a lot, even to being present for someone going through a loss.<br>We have heard about the five stages of grief &#8211; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a video, discussion with grief expert, David Kessler that gives valuable awareness and context on the topic. David was a co-author with Elizabeth Kubler Ross (famous for her work on five stages of grief) on the book, On Grief And Grieving.  He highlights a sixth stage that is very important &#8211; finding meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-ted wp-block-embed-ted wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Kessler: How to find meaning after loss\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/david_kessler_how_to_find_meaning_after_loss\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to David, there are seven factors that guide the concept of meaning.  This is helpful to understand (from the video).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-11.53.25.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-11.53.25-1024x553.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-11.53.25-1024x553.png 1024w, https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-11.53.25-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-11.53.25-768x415.png 768w, https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-11.53.25-1536x829.png 1536w, https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-11.53.25-2048x1105.png 2048w, https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-11.53.25-676x365.png 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people face loss and experience grief in different ways. They move through related feelings and often feel lost. A loss can come in different ways. Awareness of this topic and how to work through it can help a lot, even to being present for someone going through a loss.We have heard about the five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-learning","tag-coaching","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}