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Grief feels unbearable, disorienting and chaotic – a grief researcher and widow shares evidence-based ways to face the early days of loss

  • Written by Liza Barros-Lane, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Houston-Downtown
Grief feels unbearable, disorienting and chaotic – a grief researcher and widow shares evidence-based ways to face the early days of lossGrief brings a person's world to a halt.Valentina Shilkina/iStock via Getty Images Plus

The July 4 floods in Kerr County, Texas, sent shockwaves across the country. Now that most of the victims’ burials are over, the weight of grief is just beginning for loved ones left behind. It’s the daily devastation of an upended world where...

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