No Tragedy in Tears: Journeying Towards Contented Living Beyond Grief

This is not intended to be a handbook for managing grief. Grief is deeply personal and the many paths towards its resolution uniquely engage each person. Yet, hearing about how different people experience grief and its resolution, if that occurs, is helpful. Three journeys are described here. In the first two, the circumstances of the loss are very unusual. The first journey is a direct record of James' lived experience during the year after his first wife died in 1982 and of his progress t...