With nearly a decades’ worth of experience in bereavement counselling, it is clear to me that there are significant parallels between our journey through COVID-19 and the pathway through loss and grief. This pandemic started with a sense of pre-loss; when the virus exploded in Wuhan, China we experienced shock and disbelief but it was still far away, and we thought that it wouldn’t affect us here, in our country, in our communities, and in our homes.