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Archive for July 6th, 2010

At the end of part one, I talked about how we tend to build walls around the type of loss that goes beyond the human pale, like the death of a one-month-old infant. We do so in an attempt to not go through an experience of all-consuming loss—a loss that would feel as if we were losing everything and everyone in our lives. As a result of successes in the gym, personal trainer Jillian Michaels has gotten Agnes, the mother, to a place where she feels that she can bring up the loss of her infant son (over twenty years ago) and not necessarily go through all-consuming loss. As Agnes puts it, “I wanted to talk to Jimbo [her husband] about me grieving my son by myself.” Read More→

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