Navigating Grief: When Loss Comes Without Warning
I lost my father unexpectedly. Not in some distant, prepared-for way, but suddenly—a phone call that changed everything. In that moment, I entered a landscape of grief I had never traveled before. A grief so raw, so consuming, that breathing itself felt like a conscious choice. This is about that journey, the tools that held me when nothing else could, and how EFT tapping became my lifeline through the unbearable. When Grief Arrives Unannounced There's a particular violence to unexpected loss. No time to prepare. No gradual goodbyes. Just the before and the after, separated by a chasm so wide you wonder if you'll ever feel whole again. My father was here, and then he wasn't. The world kept spinning-people went to work, laughed at jokes, made dinner plans-while mine had stopped completely. How dare the sun still rise? How dare life continue as if the ground beneath my feet hadn't just disappeared? The first weeks were a blur of shock, logistics, and a grief so physical...
