This Is Us

In Midlife, I’m Learning How to Sit With Grief

How I’ve tried (and failed) to outrun it in the past

Laura Friedman Williams
Published in
6 min readJan 17, 2022

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I’ve had a few bouts with depression in my life, and not once did I see it coming. After the first such incident, I thought I would come to recognize the signs and address my mental health in the proactive way I deal with dripping pipes or holes in my…

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Laura Friedman Williams
Human Parts

Author of AVAILABLE: A Very Honest Account of Life After Divorce (Boro/HarperUK June ‘21; Harper360 May ‘21). Mom of three, diehard New Yorker.