Dealing with clients' issues... and my own

I just had a supervision session and my supervisor and I talked about how to help children deal with grief. I have the opportunity to help some children to deal with grief over loss of their significant loved one(s).

Even though the session I had with the children that I presented was not intense and emotional, I found it hard to deal with my own feelings towards this issue. My supervisor asked me if I was overwhelmed by the work I had to do with the children to process grief. There definitely is a lot of hard but yet meaningful work involved. But I was more overwhelmed by the experience of grief and loss that the children may be feeling as I was discussing the issues to talk to the children about with my supervisor. I feel quite a great sense of loss and sadness that I can't really fully explain.

This is one of the slightly more rare moments when I get more "emo" when working with clients and I start really being more emotionally involved than I usually would. I don't know if it's a good thing. I guess it's fine as long as it doesn't cripple or prevent me from working with the them.

My hope is that they will see hope and that there really will be the presence of real hope in their lives. Perhaps it's the only real comfort that I can find. I hope that God will grant me the opportunity to talk about these issues with them.