The key to coping well after you lose someone is flexibility, attending to what is happening day-to-day, and also being able to focus on coping with whichever stressor has currently reared its ugly head. Bereaved people also have times when they are not consumed by grief, when they are simply engaged in everyday experience outside the two ovals. As time passes, they are more and more engaged in everyday life, and the difficulties of loss and of restoring a meaningful life recede gradually. The ovals representing loss disruption and striving for restoration never disappear, but these stressors
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