The nature of grief presents a particular challenge to the view that emotions are unified psychological states. Grief can include all manner of potential ingredients, changes markedly over time, and has temporal gaps. In this paper, I focus exclusively on the relevant phenomenology and show how an experience of grief still amounts to a unified whole. I begin by endorsing the view that grief is a temporally extended process rather than an episode or state. I go on to argue that what unifies this process and singles it out as one of grieving is not -as has been suggested- its narrative structure. Rather, various aspects of grief all involve recognizing and responding to a wide-ranging, dynamic, and singular disturbance of life-possibilities, where recognition and response are inextricable from each other. This disturbance is ‘held together’ by relationships of non-propositional implication. I suggest that the same approach can be applied to emotions more generally.