Why does grief make us want to get a makeover?

21-year-old Horatia’s father died in March 2024. “It was sudden and completely unexpected,” she recalls. “When it happened, I think my mind and body just shut down for months [...] I felt like I was having an out-of-body experience,” she says. “I had lost something foundational to who I was, especially as I was a teenager at the time.” It’s still hard, Horatia explains, to “accept that he won’t be there for the big moments” in her life: “the milestones, the things youhellip; read more raquo;