Grief · Meaning
Meaning Reconstruction Worksheet
Re-author your life story after loss
Robert Neimeyer's meaning reconstruction: grief is the work of re-authoring your life story after a loss has torn a hole in it. Not "finding a reason" — building an understanding you can live with.
The story before the loss
What I assumed about how life worked, before this
What the loss disrupted
Assumptions that no longer hold
A story I can begin to tell
Not the meaning of the death — the meaning of my life, forward from here
Meaning is made, not found
Meaning is built slowly, in fragments. There is no single sentence. The work is tolerating that until enough fragments exist.