. - For immediate practical tools for handling grief go to: Help For Those Who Are Grief Stricken. - All of us have difficulty coping with grief. Grief can be like a spear into our hearts. Its pain can feel overwhelming. We may try to avoid it because grief hurts so much. Yet, if we let it, grief can open us up to a whole new world. It can tear our hearts open. When we let ourselves fully grieve, tears come welling up. We enter a process of transformation. Our heart breaks op
