Mel’s Reviews > What to Do When You Feel Broken: How to Let Go of Negative Patterns, Heal Your Relationships and Find Freedom > Status Update

This book…..

“In ‘stages of grief’ language, I spent hours bargaining with myself about the what ifs of it all

What if, What if, what if…..?
Eventually, you come to realise that no amount of bargaining with yourself alters the finality of death. He wasn’t coming back, no matter how long or hard I berated myself”

This book…….

“What if, What if, what if…..?
Eventually, you come to realise that no amount of bargaining with yourself alters the finality of death. He wasn’t coming back, no matter how long or hard I berated myself”

This book isn’t a book specifically about loss/grief, but it touches on it a lot. I’m sticking with it, but taking it slow. One chapter at a time

This books starts off talking about loss. I almost put it down as my body was so tense. Then I read

“What I realised, as I became more and more enraged by these relational exchanges, was just how sickeningly agreeable I was all the time. I would deny my true feelings to avoid any awkwardness and to ensure nobody else felt bad”

I relate too much to this paragraph to not at least try to sit with my discomfort