NEXT STEPS

Read Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, And Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant (Ebury, £10.99). Written after Sandberg was suddenly widowed, this interweaves personal stories with practical tips on how to find joy again in the wake of adversity.

Read & Listen How To Be Sad by Helen Russell (Harpercollins, £8.99), and the How To Be Sad podcast, which explore the importance of feeling sadness and how it can actually help us to be happier.

Listen Grief Is My Superpower podcast by Mark Lemon. Honest and inspirational conversations on how people have coped with loss.

Watch Grief Channel (grief-channel. com, £20 for one year’s access). Filmed conversations and interviews normalising grief and showing it is a natural, transformative part of life, and not something to be feared.