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How creative projects can become elaborate forms of denial

I designed my stillborn son's headstone myself and spent six months on it but now that it's in place I realize I was just postponing the reality that he's gone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sometimes making something beautiful about loss is just a way of not facing the loss itself.

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