Need to remember that a grieving person is going to laugh and smile again: Author Nora McInerny

American author Nora McInerny on overcoming grief.

Recognising that losing a loved one is part of life, American author Nora McInerny noted in this inspiring TedTalk that rather than moving on, one only moves forward. “You may be tempted to tell the grieving to move on. After all, it’s been weeks. Years. Decades. Surely this cannot still be the topic of conversation. You may be thinking, ‘This person has gotten married again or had another baby! They have so many good things in their life, this one awful thing can’t possibly still be relevant … can it?’ she asked.

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McInerny, who writes on dealing with grief and loss, drawing on her personal experience of miscarrying a child and losing both her father and husband to cancer within several weeks in 2014, said, “We do not move on from the dead people we love or the difficult situations we’ve lived through. We move forward, but we carry it all with us. Some of it gets easier to bear, some of it will always feel Sisyphean,” she said.

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