Losing someone is hard. All of us at one time or another have lost someone in our lives, someone truly dear to us. Perhaps through death, perhaps through divorce or the ending of a relationship. Perhaps our children have grown up and left the nest. Perhaps a friendship has ended. No matter how we have lost someone, our brains will go through a complicated process that we call grief. Grief essentially means our brain is trying to adapt to a new reality in which someone who was a significant part of our everyday lives now is gone. 

Human beings are relational creatures. We actually understand our own sense of self and define our self-identity through our relationships with others. That’s why when we lose someone close to us, we also feel that we’ve lost somehow a part of ourselves. In a sense…