ASK HELEN
Celebrity agony aunt Helen Lederer gives you her heartfelt advice every week
As someone who has been a social worker, mother, wife and divorcee I have been around the block a few times. I’m humbled to answer your questions and feel that if a problem can be shared it can be halved – at the very least.
Bottling things up is not helpful; grieving is a normal process, so be kind to yourself
is perfectly fine to grieve, and it will take some time. In these circumstances, you not being present at the actual funeral was the right thing to do. Your aunt would not have wanted you to be at risk. So allow yourself to grieve – it is normal. The abrupt nature of having to process death in these kind of circumstances is indeed a challenge. As we are learning day by day, the virus is affecting all of us in some way, and this final element is
Write to Helen Lederer at: Ask Helen, My Weekly, 2 Albert Square, Dundee DD1 1DD. Helen is unable to enter into private correspondence with readers.
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