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Exploring the AfterGrief, Part Three: Learning to See It Differently

By Casey Walsh on Oct 01, 2020 01:20 am

It's time to tell ourselves a new story.

Today’s is the last in a series of posts based on Hope Edelman‘s upcoming book, The AfterGrief. In her recent conversation with Rebecca Soffer, they discussed the need for “reframing” the stories we tell ourselves.

Especially for those of us who experienced early loss, it’s easy to feel as though we never grieved appropriately, and we often carry that sense of having done something inadequately–or worse yet, wrong–into adulthood.

It was hard to forgive myself for failing a test I could never retake.

In my case, the regrets went back to before my mother died.

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