5 Helpful Things to Know about Grief
Jennifer Gannon
Throughout history, people have attempted to understand and define grief and bereavement in orderly, tangible ways. In the 1960s and 70s, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross developed a model that explained death and dying as a five-stage process ending, finally, in acceptance. Her stages of death and dying were later used to describe the process of grief, as well. Many misinterpreted Kübler-Ross’s model to be a distinct, linear process with each stage following the other until one day we eventually find closure and move on with our lives. “We need time to move through the pain of loss. We need to step into it, really to get to know it, in order...
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