The Emotional Challenges Of The Transition Journey

The Emotional Challenges of the Transition Journey Hall (2016) explains the grieving process from a loss as the transition journey, a healing journey which consists of three stages, Endings, Neutral Zone, and New Beginnings. Every loss in our lives constitutes a change and every change requires a cycle of healing to face the consequences of that change (Hall, 2016). These stages are not chronological in nature, nor does each person experience each stage only once, everyone grieves in their own individualized manner.

The Endings

The Endings stage begins when the change occurs, however, much of the transition process may take place prior to the change especially for expected changes, like deployments and reunions. Hall refers to the planning, organizing, training and communicating during this stage as anticipatory grief (2016). During this planning stage, the family may work their way through a lot of healthy grief work or it may be a time when emotions are denied remaining stoic (Hall, 2016). Usually, intense emotions are common in the first few months of grieving. Feelings of sadness, anger, longing, guilt, fear, sorrow, along with somatic sensations in the stomach, shortness of breath, profound fatigue, agitation, perceived

The emotional despair is heightened at first, though remaining, lessons over time to allow the person to cope, plan and face their future with a new enlightened identity. Looking at their analogies of how we experience grief and healing as a method to transition, through every day changes in our lives, makes us realize that stoicism may strongly impede a military family’s ability to heal, especially because they experience so much loss and change throughout their