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When Surviving is Enough

A Slight Change of Plans

What if the Only Thing That You Need to Do in the Wake of Loss?

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Grief is so chaotic and it is so dark and lonely and disorienting that I can recognize in another person this reflexive need to build something out of the rubble of your life or your loss. People reach out to me all the time and they say, my brother just died and I want to do this thing. And I say to them, stop because what if the only thing that you have to do, the onlything that you absolutely have to do is just survive? What if that's it?"

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