Grief and Adjustment to Change: A no-nonsense approach

by Avigail Abarbanel

This booklet describes an approach to the process of grief and adjustment to change that is grounded in neuroscience. It’s no-nonsense, and goes right to the bare bones of what the process of grief or adjustment to change is. Grief and adjustment to change are hard enough as it is. There is no need to make it worse by also worrying that we are going crazy, or that there is something wrong with us. When people understand how grief and adjustment to a big life change affect their brain, they worry less about what they are feeling. This booklet is based on an earlier paper that was originally intended for GPs. Over the years it has become a useful resource for my clients, their family members and friends. I thought it was time to make it available to everyone.

47 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 5, 2017

About the author

Avigail has been a psychotherapist in private practice since 1999. She started her practice in Canberra Australia, and after eleven busy years, she moved to the Scottish Highlands where she has been living and working since 2010.

Avigail’s practice is based in Cawdor. She is Snr Accredited with the BACP and is a psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer, consultant, and writer. Avigail is passionate about sharing her knowledge with everyone. Since the development of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) by Dr Dan Siegel, she believes that too many psychotherapists work in an outdated way, and that there is no reason for psychotherapy to continue to be a mystery to people. She has written *Therapy Without A Therapist* specifically to share her way of working with everyone. Avigail offers free to all podcasts on this and other topics in her field. The podcasts are available here: https://avigail.substack.com/podcast

Avigail has a vision for a research centre, combined with a larger practice and training centre. She hopes to secure funding to realise this vision.

Her work website is at www.fullyhuman.co.uk and all her publications are available on Amazon worldwide. Avigail publishes essays on her Substack page: ‘Avigail Abarbanel's Fully Human Essays’ and other writings and articles on Academia.edu

Avigail was born in Israel in 1964. In 1991 she migrated to Australia, and ten years later she renounced her Israeli citizenship in protest. Avigail is an anti-Zionist activist for Palestinian human rights and against Zionist-Israeli settler-colonialism.

Some of her writings on Palestine-Israel can be found on Mondoweiss and the Electronic Intifada, more recently she has been publishing on her Substack page ‘Avigail Abarbanel’s Fully Human Essays’, and on Medium.

Reviews

[Stacy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative.