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When your guide through grief becomes grief

My therapist died suddenly last week and I feel lost because she was the person who helped me make sense of everything and now who's going to help me make sense of losing her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You're facing the recursive nature of loss—that even those who help us heal are temporary.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Stoic memento mori — remember you will die?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.