Grieving

Well, I suppose it could have taken me longer. But seven years is rather a while.

Walking on through the little community library here in the country, I found myself in the self-help section, looking for pain management books and hoping to find the one Laura suggested. And then there I was in the grief section, and I decided to pull one from the shelf: Never the Same: Coming to Terms with the Death of a Parent by Donna Shuurman. And today I picked it up to leaf through it while the coffee was percolating. It isn't quite right for me, since her text, as well as the Dougy Center, where she is executive director, cater to those who lost parents as children. But otherwise, the ideas underlying their work resonated with me, and thanks to their center locator, I have found my way to free grief counseling, so I am going to try a group and see how it goes.

I'm browsing self-help books. I guess I must be in grad school.

This should be fun . . .