Joseph Wilson

About

You might be here because everyone around you has quietly returned to normal and you have not, and you are beginning to suspect that something is wrong with you. Nothing is wrong with you. The timetable other people are using was never based on anything. The loss of a loved one does not resolve on a schedule that suits other people's calendars. The pressure to appear recovered often arrives long before recovery is anywhere in sight. We ignore the timetable entirely. What we look at instead is what you actually need in order to get through this particular month. An entirely different field occupied my first working life, and I came into this late enough to be skeptical of received wisdom about how long things ought to take. If everyone has moved on without you, get in touch. There is no schedule you are failing to meet.