Overcoming grief. My struggle to recover after mourning the loss of my dear sister in law.

[CTyankee]

We all knew she was essentially dying from liver cirrhosis. She had stopped drinking but the damage was done. We accepted that the process would be of some length, affording us time to mourn the upcoming loss.

But she died quite suddenly and I wasn't prepared when I got the news. I went into an extended period of time crying each day. A good friend suggested that I write about her in my journal so I did. I wrote about the time I first met her and our experience of having our babies at approximately the same time.

Then I realized that this writing therapy was really wallowing in grief. I finally had accepted her death, acknowledged my feelings and deleted the long journal entries.

I guess it takes a long time to overcome grief. That was my story.