The Five Stages of Grief Were Never About You
The five stages of grief came from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's interviews with terminally ill patients, people facing their own deaths, and they were never validated as a sequence for the bereaved. Decades of research point somewhere else entirely: oscillation, resilience, and waves that don't take requests. If you've been grading your grief against the stages, this is your permission to drop the rubric.
June 10, 20264 min read
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