5 kinds of grief that don’t look like grief

Grief does not always arrive with tears, silence or a room full of memories. Sometimes, it looks like being unusually busy. Sometimes, it looks like scrolling late into the night because you do not want to think. And sometimes, it looks like being completely fine.

Not every loss comes with a funeral or a goodbye. We can grieve people, places, relationships, versions of ourselves and futures that never happened. The difficult part is that some of these losses are so quiet that we do not even realise we are carrying them.

Here are five kinds of grief that can hide behind everyday behaviour.

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