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Why are we so bad at grief?

Catherine Andrews
6 min readFeb 14, 2021

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And what does it take to get better?

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This article is cross-posted from my weekly newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a newsletter about clarity, intention, and useful tips for creating more meaning in your life that goes out every Sunday morning. Subscribe here. I am also a coach who works with sensitive people so they can stop second-guessing, make decisions confidently and live the life they’ve always dreamed of. You can learn more about working with me here.

How can we get better at grieving?

You can listen to this essay as audio here

Happy Valentine’s Day I’m here to talk about grief and loss!!!

I was watching 60 Minutes with my boyfriend a few weeks ago (this is what we do, by the way, on Sundays: make a quiet dinner, settle into his recliner and couch, flip on Bill Whitaker or Lesley Stahl for the hour, then read until we fall asleep, it’s a dream life) and they had a gut-wrenching episode on the families who lost members early on in the pandemic.

And I realized: We’re just about at the one-year mark of the first deaths in America from the Coronavirus.

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Catherine Andrews
Catherine Andrews

Written by Catherine Andrews

Teaching awakening + healing through vulnerability + self-compassion. Finding hope in a messy world. Author of the Sunday Soother. http://catherinedandrews.com

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