I met grief when the police officer uttered, “I have some sad news to share, your son Charles has been found dead this morning.” “Met” is probably too gentle a term. It was more like grief and I had a head-on collision. The news that my son Charles killed himself was a painful twist of the knife. At that moment I was assaulted by so many feelings at once.
Losses can be traumatic especially when it’s an early or unexpected death.
No one is born with directions on how to grieve and after it happens you crave a road map. … Read more...