In hope you may yet experience a silent, inner struggle to move from the defensiveness of grief to the quiet confidence of living forward. It is difficult to imagine or even reckon with the moment when the worst of grief is over and behind you—when every breath is no longer one of sorrow for your loved one. You reach the other side of the valley of the shadow of death when grief as an embedded, familiar mode of thinking and being slowly begins to feel stiff and stifling.