How to Survive Grief

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When lucy first confronted abby's death, grief felt like an impassable mountain looming before her. But when she started looking at the scientific evidence, she discovered cause for hope. While small minority of people do get stuck in grief, the majority recover and regain healthy levels of psychological functioning. Lucy chose to spend time away from her grief, this wasn't denial. Her brain was doing the perfectly healthy thing of oscillating between attending to grief and attending to recovery.

We’ve all heard about the five stages of grief. But what happens when your experience doesn’t follow that model at all? Resilience researcher Lucy Hone began to question how we think about grief after a devastating loss in her own life. She shares the techniques she learned to help her cope with tragedy.

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