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When grief counselors push meaning-making too early

My daughter died in a car accident eight months ago and everyone keeps telling me I need to find meaning in it but I just want her back and cannot understand why meaning matters when she is gone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The demand to transform loss into meaning can become another form of violence when imposed before the heart has permission to simply break.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with New meaning after loss — Frankl applied to grief?”

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