While the book progresses in a somewhat linear fashion, jump around however you see fit. As with grief, there’s no right way to explore this. Especially in early grief, there’s only so much you can absorb. Even if you had a deep attention span before your loss, grief has a way of shortening that considerably. Take things in manageable chunks. (I discuss more on how grief affects your brain and body in part 2.) The first part of the book is about the culture of grief and how we come to pain like yours. It dives into the historical roots of emotional illiteracy, of our deep aversion to facing
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