Intangible losses are losses that are not focused on a specific person or pet. Typically, they are those one cannot see, hear, taste, touch, or smell. Intangible losses are frequently described as constructs, such as loss of safety, trust, faith, health, home, community, career, etc.
Intangible losses often occur in the context of interpersonal relationships. For example, when a parent is not trustworthy during one’s childhood, the person/griever may develop a loss of trust in all adults. Or when one is mistreated by persons affiliated with their faith or career, they may feel a loss of the hopes/dreams/expectations associated with their faith or career.
Someone can use the GRM to explore and recover from these intangible losses, but one must always first identify the people, living or dead, who influenced the loss of the intangible. By first doing their GRM work (Relationship Graphs, Recovery Components, and Completion Letters) on those people who influenced their perceptions or beliefs about the intangible, they will either realize they no longer need to graph the intangible or they will be able to do so more clearly with the people out of the picture.
GRMS are asked never to allow a griever to work on an intangible loss as their first loss. Instead, help the griever first to identify those people who were influential in their lives and encourage doing 3-4 complete relationships before attempting a true intangible loss. Please book a support call if this is your first time working on an intangible loss for further assistance.