Grief lives in the body before it lives in words: the heaviness in the chest, the exhaustion that is not like ordinary tiredness, the appetite disturbance, the immune suppression that makes the bereaved genuinely more susceptible to illness. The physical dimension of grief is not metaphor; it is physiological reality, and attending to the body during mourning is not indulgence but necessity. This domain examines the physical reality of grief and what it asks of the person carrying it.
Each step builds on the last.