The Western view on grief is that it is something that you passively experience over about a year after a loved one dies.  You are supposed to progress from a starting phase, continue through subsequent levels, and, by the end, your grief should be complete. Once you’ve neatly gone through each distinct stage, you can carry on with life.

In actuality, grief is a participation sport that has no rules, no linear timeline, and again…no expiration date.

This week I want you to meet Matt Gilhooly. Someone who had to face the tragic loss of his mother at the age of 8 and decades later the loss of his grandmother. Leaving him to ask that same question, am I failing at grieving? And then ultimately turning that thought into a shift in his own life, one he soon realized we all go through.

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Watch the video version of Matt’s story on YouTube.

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