The Grief Police (They Live Inside Your Head)

If you are grieving something, a lost opportunity, a loved one, the end of a relationship, failing health..whatever your are grieving, look at the rules that the grief police might be trying to enforce. Should you be over it by now? Will you be bringing up your loss every time we get together? Can you talk of nothing else, ever?
We each do grief in our own way...grief is personal and different and doesn't move in a predictable way through our lives...Know that there will be people that have a set of rules about the timeline of grief and don't allow those rules to beat yourself up.
The way you do grief is yours, you own it. It can't be measured by a book, an article, or anyone else.
Look at the ways you are drawn to grief. Are you a friend or family member of someone who is grieving? Just listen, show up, and have no judgement. Just listen... You can't fix it... And they don't want you to!