‘I’m having fewer grief attacks’ – Nigel Latta’s widow is finding her way

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Source: Radio New Zealand

A couple of weeks ago, feeling like she’d “slid back to rock bottom” after Nigel Latta‘s death, his wife Natalie Flynn asked a psychiatrist/Buddhist monk friend for life hacks on grieving.

“Grief is like the stock market. You think you’re on an upswing, then it drops, but look at the overall trend,” was his response. Viewing herself this way, Flynn says she was able to see an upward trend.

“I’m having fewer grief attacks, those times where I just feel like it’s impossible that he’s not here, and I’m moving forward, and I’m having more good days. So things are on the upswing.”

Natalie Flynn with her late husband, the clinical psychologist Nigel Latta, who died last year at 58.

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