I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.
Meghan O'RourkeMany grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.
Meghan O'RourkeIt's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.
Meghan O'RourkeGrief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.
Meghan O'Rourke