Moving Forward

A common thread on this episode of the TED Radio Hour: you can't put the grief of major loss "behind you," you must assimilate it. It becomes a part of you. The woman who remarried after her husband died, for instance, says well-meaning friends told her to put him behind her and move forward. She says he's still with her, and now she has two husbands...

When the life you've built slips out of your grasp, you're often told it's best to move on. But is that true? Instead of forgetting the past, TED speakers describe how we can move forward with it.
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