The Right Way to Grieve

(Photo by John Mark Arnold on Unsplash.)

It’s been a month since my husband died, and I’m still locked in this weird, self-conscious state of shock/numbness.

Shelley (from our local hospice society) brought me a book on grief, Coping With Grief: A Guide for the Bereaved Survivor, and I went straight to the chapters on Shock, Denial and Emotional Numbness — which, comfortingly, were the first chapters. I guess I’m not the only one to react to loss this way.