I've been thru a traumatic experience since the beginning of the year. I was written up for being irritable and losing my temper on my job, which involved a lot of public contact and dealing with customer complaints. I've never been written up in my 21 years with the company. So, I was barely digesting that when, two days later, I was offered another job with hardly any public contact within the same department and I took it. I've mostly trained in my replacement and have begun training at my new job.

I talked with a counselor I've known for years and he helped me figure out the main stress on my old job was shame - shame from not being able to handle the public contact. However, I now feel like I'm going thru the grief process for the loss of my old job and the change in my relationship with the supervisor I had at my old job. Thru an odd coincidence, he moved to another unit in December and I've now been moved to his unit. It was the new supervisor, who I also had years ago, who wrote me up, then arranged for me to move. I had an "office spouse" relationship with my old and now current supervisor. It was almost embarrassing at times how much he depended on me. Now, though he was welcoming and glad to have me in his unit at first, it's just different.

So, I've got a whole range of emotions within me - happiness I still have job, trauma from almost being fired, seeming grief about losing my old job, even though I hated it, and sadness. At random times, I feel like crying. I know the recovery process will take time. That's why I contacted my counselor, to help with the process. Any advice on how to get thru this will be appreciated.