There’s death & taxes. And then there’s the friend from middle school who helps you by letting you use their phone for your taxes because Wi-Fi is out of the question today.
My little brother “So, if you say you don’t want to work out where anyone can see you at a gym, would you go to a gym & run on a treadmill if it was for free?”
Me “No.”
It is rare for the process of healing trauma healing to bypass grief. That is true for the healing of individual, complex, single incident, systemic, and collective traumas.
Grieving is part of healing.