Coaching Grief Fear and Anger with Dan Newby

On the latest episode of Coaching Matters we dived deep into the sea of emotions. With Dan Newby we understood that we all have got issues with our emotions. We all need to get better in dealing with our own life.In your coaching interactions, how do you acknowledge feelings like grief, fear, and anger? But when we are dealing with grief, when we’re dealing with fear or anger how can we bring a balance to the coaching conversation?

Here is a transcripted version of the conversation that followed.

Three Criterion of Emotions
“Anger is an emotion and we can talk more about that. Grief for me is not a single emotion.”

Everyone I would say, well, fear is an emotion, and we’ll talk more about that as an emotion.
Anger is an emotion and we can talk more about that. Grief for me is not a single emotion.
And I think there’s been lots of study, lots of writing on this, that grief is more a process of adaptation to loss, and it often includes a number of emotions.

So any of us who have travelled that road through grief know that we may have experienced denial.
We may have experienced just belief or encourage you with it. We just couldn’t believe that that had happened because it felt so, so horrible to us.
We may have felt guilt or self-blame wondering if we have done enough, we may have experienced anger or self anger.