How to Survive Grief

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.