Pauline Boss — Navigating Loss Without Closure
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Only Way to Live With Ambiguous Loss Is to Hold Two Opposing Ideas in Your Mind
The only way to live with ambiguous loss is to hold two opposing ideas in your mind at the same time. Those kinds of thinking are common, and it is the only way that people can lower the stress of living with ambiguity. Ait is not part of our culture. However, we like a finite answers. You're either dead or here alive. Ah, you're either here or you're gone. And so once you put that frame on it, people are more at ease and recognize that that may be the closest to the truth that they're going to get....
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