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How Grief Disrupts the Body's Basic Rhythms

I can't sleep through the night anymore since my dad died six months ago, but everyone says I'm 'handling it well' because I went back to work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The body refuses to participate in the fiction of normalcy when fundamental loss has not been properly processed.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Somatic symptoms — when the body holds the mind?”

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