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Grief does not follow stages

Why the idea of neat stages leaves so many people feeling they are doing it wrong.

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Grieving by doing

If you are fixing, working and sorting instead of talking, that is a recognised way to grieve.

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The first week after a death

What usually needs doing, and what can wait.

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Grief without a body, without a goodbye

When you could not be there, or there was no funeral, or the person was never found.

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When the death was by suicide

A loss that brings its own questions. Some things that are true.

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LibraryScript

Telling children about a death

Simple, honest words for a hard conversation.

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LibraryExplainer

Grief and anger

Being furious at the person who died, at doctors, at God, at everyone. Why it happens.

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When the second year is harder

Why grief can get harder after the first year, not easier.

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Losing a parent as an adult

When you become the older generation, and people expect you to cope.

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Losing a child

The loss that turns the natural order upside down.

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When a pregnancy ends

Miscarriage, stillbirth and loss in pregnancy, including for partners.

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Grief after a breakup

When the person is still alive but the life you had together is gone.

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Grieving someone you had a hard relationship with

When the person who died also hurt you.

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LibraryExplainer

Grief and your body

Tired, aching, sick, unable to eat. Grief is physical.

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LibraryScript

What to say when someone is grieving

And what to stop saying.

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Holidays and anniversaries

Getting through the dates you know are coming.

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Grief at work

Going back, what to say, and what you do not owe anyone.

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Grief that will not ease

When a loss takes over a life for a very long time, and what can help.

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Continuing bonds with someone who died

Staying connected to someone after death is healthy, not a sign of being stuck.

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Grief and faith

When loss shakes what you believe, or when faith is what holds you.

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Grief in a family that does not talk about feelings

When everyone is hurting and nobody says so.

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Grieving a pet

When the loss of an animal hurts more than people expect.

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Grief and guilt

The things you wish you had said or done.

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Grief when you are far from home

Losing someone in another country, or grieving away from your family.

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LibraryExplainer

When grief and depression overlap

How to tell the difference, and why it matters.

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When a relationship ends and you did not see it coming

Shock, questions, and getting through the first weeks.

1 minute readRelationships
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Family rejection

When people who should love you turn away.

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LGBTQ+ people and grief

When grief is not recognised.

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Learning to live alone

After a breakup, bereavement or leaving home.

1 minute readStarting over
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When everyone else has moved on

Feeling left behind after a hard time.

1 minute readStarting over
LibraryPractical guide

Clearing out after a loss

Belongings, homes, and when to do it.

1 minute readStarting over
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Saying goodbye to a home

Leaving a place that held a life.

1 minute readStarting over
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Finding purpose again

When life feels meaningless after loss or change.

1 minute readStarting over
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Letting go of who you were

Grieving an old version of yourself.

1 minute readStarting over
LibraryExplainer

Keeping your home when someone dies

What happens to a tenancy or mortgage after a death.

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Grieving someone who is still alive

Estrangement, breakups, a parent who changed. Losses nobody holds a funeral for.

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What to do about the house

The physical place, and the decisions people will push you to make early that do not have to be made early.

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The paperwork nobody warns you about

Accounts, policies, subscriptions, the DMV. What order to do it in and what can wait.

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Telling people, and how many times you have to

The repetition problem, and three scripts for different distances of friend.

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Why Monday is the worst day

And the specific things that help before ten o'clock.

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The thing you keep not doing

Why that one task has been sitting there six weeks, and how to make it smaller than it is.

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Eating when you do not care about eating

Practical, unsentimental, and no nutrition advice.

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Sleeping, or not

What is common, what is worth mentioning to a doctor, and what actually helps at three in the morning.

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Going back to work

The first week, what to tell people, and what you are not obliged to say.

2 minute readStarting over
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The second year

Nobody warns you that it can be harder, and why that is not going backwards.

2 minute readStarting over