Knowing as you do that dead is not gone is no reason to assume there is anything wrong with grieving; loss is loss no matter where the thing lost goes.

But the notion that we can't communicate with someone because their body is dead is untrue and unuseful.

Very often you can find someone (in the mental or spiritual sense) after they've died and you can continue communicating with them. The best thing youcan do is seek to complete all the undelivered communications and things that should have been said that weren't.

Grief itself, though, is there to feel and experience, and when you try not to have it it will wait around until you do. So giving yourself permission to do that is important. Not to wallow in but simply to feel what is there, discover how wide and far it extends, and move through it.

Hope something here helps.


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