The Fractured Mirror Grieving Beautifully Imperfect

Nobody enters a relationship with the anticipation, understanding, or acceptance that one day, they will have to say goodbye. Death and taxes, right? We joke about it, but we often avoid the harsh reality of death and the painful, sometimes miserable grieving process of the surviving loved ones.As a therapist, I question why we avoid this reality.As the surviving loved one, I question, why would I NOT avoid this reality?Fractured Mirror Grieving Beautifully Imperfect: A Journey Through the First Year of Grief explores grief through poetry and prose. The silence of death. The hope of future. The space in between.Walk, crawl, or perhaps run through the seven stages of grief (and then back again) as the stages have their own order for each of us.With the hope, acceptance, and moving forward on the horizon, may you find "you" again and live.