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Career Counselling: A Holistic Perspective
Follow your dream! Live your passion! Be authentic! How often we hear these phrases these days. What does it really mean for me? As a professional counsellor who has a speciality in career counselling, it means many things. It means that I serve as a guide to others who have lost their jobs; who feel their jobs no longer meet their needs or whose jobs bring little satisfaction. It means helping first time job seekers and those who feel confused, afraid, are grieving or who feel their lives are purposeless due to job loss as a result of downsizing or injury.

Grief: A Transformative Process
Grief, according to Miriam Greenspan in her book Healing through the Dark Emotions The Wisdom of Grief, Fear and Despair, is a universal response to death and loss. It is a psychospiritual process. As the conventional ego begins to give way, the spirit can do grief work. Griefwork is not a return to the pre-loss status quo. (Pg. 92) People do not get "back to normal" after a child dies, or after any profound loss. Grief is an opportunity not for "resolution," as in the popular parlance, but for transformation: a wholly new awareness of reality, self, beloved and world." (Pg .93) What does that mean? For a person who has experienced a profound loss - whether it is the loss of child, a loved one, a job or a friend, Miriam Greenspan's thoughts may mean many things.