Coming back to life after loss: how it works
A loss pushes you back from the front lines of life, into a smaller place of emotion and turmoil where you try to figure out how to live each new day. The world you came from is suddenly not your own, and when you occasionally catch sight of it, it seems to be proceeding as usual, just without you. For a while, you don’t care; you can’t relate to it anyway. But as you find your footing and make your peace with the fact that you and grief will live together for some time, you
