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Overcoming Grief

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Overcoming Grief

As we talked about Devi from ‘Never Have I Ever' in a recent post and how Dr. Ryan helped her grieve, we would like to take a moment and address how grief can be different for different people.

 

Grief is very complicated as it happens to elicit a lot of emotions and physical symptoms in us - from an initial shock to episodes of full-blown anger, grief can push a person to any limits sometimes. This is the reason why we can never comprehend how a certain loss can impact someone. A lot of people are familiar with the stages of grief proposed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1969) – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. However, contrary to popular belief, the stages of grief are not linear and can differ for everyone.

 

People tend to switch between states of mind that either allows them to feel the loss or adjust to it.

We understand that we may not ever be completely able to forget the loss but we build a life around it in a way where we make space for it and also make space for other things in life. Eventually, life takes us to different places, people, and experiences but that does not always have to mean that our grief will shrink. Our acceptance increases with how we eventually grow around our grief and honor the loss as a significant event that shaped us. Again, let us not forget that this process is different for everyone!

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