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'I worry that people will describe themselves with the term complicated grief because they believe that the depth of their grief cannot be normal, and the fact that the undertow of grief persists cannot be normal. But this is a common concern—grieving does take time, and restoring a meaningful life takes time, in the most normal and natural cases.'
— Jan 11, 2026 04:31PM
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Christina
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Human beings cannot choose to ignore only unpleasant feelings. If you are numb to your momentary experience, you are numb to it all, the good and the bad. ...If you avoid painful feelings by avoiding the awareness of what is going on around you, what you end up with is being unaware of what is going on around you. ...Ignoring the present makes it difficult to learn what works in the new ways you are living your life.
— Jan 14, 2026 12:32PM
Christina
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'Yearning is not only for the past, for something that was. Yearning also means that there is something we do not like about the present. ... If the present has little to say for itself, or if we feel unable to shift our attention and we do not even know what the present has to offer, the more likely it is that yearning will persist.'
— Jan 14, 2026 11:21AM
