But Ana María Patricia Márquez is saying it now. 1. The Empty Chair (for ambiguous loss) Place an empty chair facing you. Speak aloud to the person, relationship, or version of your life you lost. Then sit in the chair and answer as them. “You will be surprised what you hear.”
At 22, she lost her younger brother in a mountaineering accident in the Andes. At 29, her mother to early-onset Alzheimer’s. At 34, a miscarriage that went unnamed for years because, as she puts it, “we don’t have rituals for what never took its first breath.” El Poder Del Duelo Ana Maria Patricia Marquez...
For nearly a decade, she practiced traditional cognitive-behavioral therapy, helping patients “manage” loss with thought records and exposure hierarchies. But she felt like a fraud. But Ana María Patricia Márquez is saying it now