We treat grief as something reserved for death alone, when in truth we live with it every day — in our endings, our beginnings, and every choice in between.

This is why our grief capacity stays so fragile. We keep skipping funerals for our own lives.

of the most, if not the most, enduring. In a study7 of diaries written over many years’ time, Paul C. Rosenblatt, Ph.D., found that people may recover from the worst of their soul-grief in the first year or two after a tragedy, depending on a person’s support systems and so forth. But afterward, the person continues to experience periods of active

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