Grief That Has No Timeline
Grief doesn't move in a straight line, and it doesn't care about your deadlines. Here's how to hold loss without holding yourself to a schedule.
Grief has a reputation for being a process with stages and a finish line. In real life, it's more like weather — some days clear, some days a storm that arrives without warning, years later. There is no five-month plan for missing someone.
People around you may expect you to 'move on,' and you may expect it of yourself. But grief isn't something to get over; it's love with nowhere to go. It changes shape, but it doesn't disappear. The work is learning to carry it without it carrying you.
Therapy offers space to grieve at your own pace, without the pressure to perform being 'okay.' You don't have to earn your way through your loss. You just get to feel it, in your own time.