Feeling like your career loss is a personal failure? You're not alone.

When a tornado hits a town; the landscape is changed forever. The town doesn’t just "get over" a tornado; it gets integrated into its history and into the experiences of the people living there.

That’s exactly what hundreds of thousands of people are going through right now. Of course, in our context it's a force of politics vs the public service and international development sectors but the result is the same. 

A devastated landscape. Livelihoods knocked down to their foundations. Then there’s the loss of identity, purpose, and community…a disenfranchised grief that society doesn't know how to acknowledge.

Yes, we need to rebuild, but to do so we need to acknowledge and process the loss. In exploring the loss, we’ll uncover what it truly means to us, gather the resources necessary to redraw our map of the future, and take those first steps.

You have permission to grieve your career losses. There's no quick fix, no magic timeline, but there is a path forward.

In our latest post, Laverne McKinnon, career strategist and grief coach, details her own story of job loss and then shares a framework which she uses to help clients navigate career grief.

We’ll also be hosting an AMA interview with Laverne on Friday Oct 31 at 12pm EST. If you are interested in participating in that discussion, please RSVP using the form linked in the comments.