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Tag: grief book

The Book That’s Pretty Painfully Helping Me With Grief

On 6th Jun 2025 By Absurd RhioIn Grief Journey2 Comments

I’ve tried grief therapy. It didn’t work. This book - The Pretty Painful Grief Book - actually is. It doesn’t sugar-coat or preach. It just asks the right questions. Some of them hurt. Some made me cry. But they helped. This post is about how I’m using it, and why it matters.

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