![]() Our hope is that with these stages comes the knowledge of grief ‘s terrain, making us better equipped to cope with life and loss. Not everyone goes through all of them or in a prescribed order. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. The five stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are responses to loss that many people have, but there is not a typical response to loss as there is no typical loss. They were never meant to help tuck messy emotions into neat packages. The stages have evolved since their introduction and have been very misunderstood over the past four decades. In our book, On Grief and Grieving we present the adapted stages in the much needed area of grief. As expected, the stages would present themselves differently in grief. I was privileged to co-author two books with the legendary, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, as well as adapt her well-respected stages of dying for those in grief.
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