More Than 100 Percent

What happens when we experience a loss?
by Alison Bonds Shapiro, M.B.A. in Healing Into Possibility
Originally published online by Psychology Today

What happens when we experience a loss? At the time of the loss, some part of what we claim as our lives, bodies, or things are gone. We grieve. We feel injured. We may feel diminished or "less than" we were before the loss. Among other things, Merriam-Webster's definition says loss means: "destruction, ruin" and "the act of losing possession; the harm or privation resulting from loss or separation".

I speak with many people who have horrendous injuries and losses of function - so difficult that, in many cases, it is astonishing that they live. Very often they tell me that they know their lives will never be a 100% again, but is this true? In the long run after a loss do we have to wind up "less than" we were before the loss?

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