Why does your body feel far away or disconnected after a loss? Here’s how grief creates that distance in four protective steps, and how to come back gently.
Feeling nothing after a significant loss doesn't mean you're grieving wrong. Here's what numbness is, why your body uses it, and how to support yourself through it.
Your body starts responding to your loss before your mind can explain it. What's happening physically in those first weeks, and why it is not a malfunction.
When you experience loss, it also takes who you were in relation to the loss. The second loss tends to go unnamed, and also helps to rebuild a sense of self.
Grief isn't the same for every loss — but the ranking isn't the one you were handed. What the body actually measures: depth, suddenness, and witness.
Grief doesn't shrink or get smaller over time — your capacity expands around it. What contraction does to a life, and what it actually takes to get larger again.