Maria Shriver

Dr. Keith Cobb

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Blog Posts

• January 5, 2012

  Tips for Transformation

  

  Four Steps from Grief to Recovery

  Just a few months after I began my medical practice, I met a couple who only hours prior had learned of the death of their 20-year-old son in a car accident. Understandably, they were in shock from the traumatic news and needed help to make it through the difficult days of planning and attending a funeral.

  I provided a low dose of an anti-anxiety medication to help take the edge off, but no amount of medication can completely ease the pain of losing a loved one. In spite of years of training to become a physician, on that day I realized I did not yet fully understand the profound effects of grief, nor was I well prepared yet to help others navigate through the difficult journey from pain to recovery.