Why do you think we don't like talking about our feelings? I mean, it just feels so tragic and unfortunate that we resist doing the very thing that can help us in the face of a death. The sort of paradox of by allowing us to feel the aspects of ourselves that we most kind of fear, we do in the end heal.
Julia Samuel is one of the world’s leading grief therapists. She joins Maya to talk about why it’s important to engage with our grief, and offers strategies for how to do that.
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