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How to Speak Grief
Grief has a language all its own, but even the best therapists can get tongue-tied around the tricky stuff. Our grief vocabulary isn’t clinical, and you probably won’t find it in the self-help books that friends hand you after the memorial service. But this does come from some hard-earned experience: We both lost parents as young adults. Loss is messy, melancholic and often darkly hilarious. It also lingers forever. Here’s a glossary that takes all that into account. Use it well.
Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner are the authors of the book “Modern Loss,” from which this is adapted. Illustrations by Peter Arkle.
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