God offers more than "Stop It!"

C.S.Lewis' "A Grief Observed" really helped me deal with my grief by understanding it, dealing with the realities of my loss, and realizing that I was not alone, or weak for struggling and hurting.
Sometimes we just want to deal with ourselves harshly, the way this video of Bob Newhart so cleverly epitomizes our own favorite method:



There is also denial, diversions, replacement therapy, and others that buy us time and help us cope. But C. S. Lewis helped me so much in putting things in perspective with his writings, and his gut-level honesty and transparency.