Benjamin Scott Allen discusses grief and closure

There is a kind of loss that carries a special burden caused by the fact that the subject of the loss disappeared. There is no closure for the person grieving. This happens for grieving people like parents of missing children, families of MIA soldiers, or people with loved ones on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to name a few.

The grieving person experiences a roller coaster of emotions between hope and discouragement as they wait for "the disappeared" to come back. This grief has been called "ambiguous loss" and it is a very complex thing to work through. Just giving it a name and learning to embrace the unknown can help.

Benjamin is the author of Out of the Ashes, Healing in the AfterLoss. This book is about profound loss and forging a new path after his loved ones died. 

Loss is a part of life, and we all deal it differently. When we give ourselves permission to lean into loss, this unique process of healing finds its own time and rhythm.

There are parts of the Afterloss that only you know and only you can travel, but every one who has experienced loss in one form or another knows the path has many footprints that can lead us into healing. We are not alone.

Your hosts Benjamin Allen and Deborah Brown will share their journeys through grief into healing and create a container for others to explore, define and lean into loss of all kinds. 

We meet here and now on the path to the rest of our lives, at the intersection of Loss and Hope ... may we all be blessed by sharing what we have lived and learned.