When Grief Comes From Complicated Relationships

<p>Grief can become especially complicated when the person who died was also someone who caused hurt, disappointment, conflict, or emotional harm. In this episode of <em>Permission to Breathe</em>, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores what it means to grieve a relationship that held love and pain at the same time. Using Jennette McCurdy’s memoir <em>I’m Glad My Mom Died</em> as a point of departure, this episode examines grief that includes anger, relief, guilt, longing, unfinished conversations, and the loss of what the relationship never became. Dr. Isaac also considers the pressure to remember the dead more favorably than the relationship warrants, the difference between guilt and grief, and what it means to mourn without reconciliation. This conversation offers permission to grieve the relationship as it actually was, without rewriting the past or forcing your emotions into a simpler story.</p><p></p>