My latest grief hack is to spend a half an hour or so every morning actively grieving, after which I try not to think much about Brady and his death for the rest of the day. This grief dosing approach fulfills my two main objectives when it comes to Brady.
First, I don’t ever want to forget him or what happened. Neither is likely, to put it mildly. But for some reason I still want to make sure I’m remembering or at least not trying to forget.
Second, I don’t want my memories of him and what happened to be the only things I can think about. I don’t want my son’s death to unavoidably blacken every experience for the rest of my life.
Grief dosing seems to be helping. After a few days of trying it, I find I can grieve wholeheartedly without holding anything back for a while…
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