Remembering Abi: How Lucy Hone Lives with the Loss of Her Daughter

Writer: Lucy Hone

The author, a psychologist who works in the field of resilience, lost her 12-year old daughter in a tragic motor vehicle accident. Lucy Hone set out to find evidence-based ways to foster healing and maintain healthy functioning in the wake of her grief. In this article, she proposes that we do not need to be passive passengers in our grief – research has identified several strategies that help us adapt to the loss. She shares these findings in the hopes of helping others who are grieving, describing things we can do to exert control over how we negotiate the recovery process: ways to think and act that make it more manageable.

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