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How to grieve when your life's work disappears

I spent twenty-three years building a restaurant that was everything to me and we had to close during the pandemic and now I walk past the empty space every day going to my new job at the bank and I feel like I buried a child.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The loss of life's work creates a unique grief that combines professional identity with personal mortality.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Work as legacy — when the work outlasts you?”

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