
“Pain, as much as we never want to feel it and want to do what we can to avoid it, is the way that we adjust to this new reality.”
These words really struck a chord with me. They are the words of Julia Samuel, who has worked with grieving people for over 30 years and was speaking at a ‘Death of a parent’ session at the Good Grief Festival. And as far as I was concerned, she could have been talking directly to me.







