ABSTRACT
The advent of contemporary scholarship concerning the continuing bond has made clinical as well as conceptual contributions to many approaches to grief therapy. Viewed through a constructivist lens, a central process in grieving is the attempt to reaffirm or reconstruct a world of meaning that has been challenged by loss. Although the narration of loss naturally occurs on every level from the intimately individual to the intricately social, in Inge's case her grief has become a self-censored, silent story, one that finds no audience in the world of others. As she begins rewriting the terms of attachment to Mom, Inge confesses a problem: the invited memories may bring joy, but the uninvited ones can bring pain. Each ornament hung with her children on the tree is a link to Mom, as Inge is herself a link in a transgenerational story.
