Narrative Re-membering for Sudden Loss of Extramarital Lover

A fifty-three-year-old female loses her longtime extramarital lover after his abrupt diagnosis of pancreatic cancer less than three weeks prior. She tries to cope with the conflicting emotions of shame vs. debilitating isolation, due to the disenfranchised nature of her grief. Hoping to relieve some of that inner tension, Client and I embark on a 45-minute narrative therapy exercise called “re-membering.”