Understanding Your Grief

A very dear friend who works in some type of counseling field has given me a book and made me promise to read it.

She set the bar very low, no minimum pages, no deadline, just really a promise to try.

The book seems like an easy read and probably very helpful.  I'm guessing my grief counselor may have studied his work because her style and support seems modeled on very similar ideas.

My problem is probably that I don't want to heal.  I don't want the problem to start.  I don't want MyJamie to be gone. 

Part of me realizes that parents passing away is part of a life cycle.  I watched them both bury their parents.  My dad told us for years he was sick.  But I didn't expect him to die on a Sunday afternoon in March.

I just don't want to figure out what healing is if healing is doing without them.