Stages Of Grief

rief -The Repairing of the Heart and Soul

To have loved is to have lost. These are probably the best words used to describe the essence of grief. Grief is something that heavily clouds the mind, and consumes the heart and soul. After the loss of a dear pet, friend, or loved one, grief then enters a person’s life. It is the recovery process that helps to repair the mind, body, and inner soul after an emotional loss. Most people believe that grieving is a process, and is broken down into many different stages. While there isn’t a time constraint for each phase of grief, they do typically occur in a specific order. These orders include denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

Whether it strikes immediately,
This may be the “rawest” chapter of grief. Those initial tears and questions of denial now turn into fiery hatred and frustration. It’s in this phase where love ones usually compares the deaths of friends or family members to one another. If a person’s son dies in a drive by shooting associated with drug use, prepare to hear how that child deserved to die versus the teenage boy who died of leukemia. Be prepared to be the blame for a drunk driver running a red light and killing a mother of three. This stage is a no holds bar when it comes to mourning. If a family member is going through this phase, bare with them, they are currently lost souls drowning in sorrow and irrationality. While this stage is heartbreaking to witness, it is only the process that everyone must go through in order to see the light at the end of the
This stage is known to cripple one emotionally, and perhaps even physically. In this stage, the reality that a loved one is gone forever finally sets in as real and absolute. One may feel every emotion from the prior stages and can be consumed with an array of emotions. They suddenly find themselves in a pit of deep, dark depression. Left with feelings that they may not be able to move on or live another day without their loved one. To them, life is over, as they know it. Life will never be the same. Although dark, they are on to something in this phase, and couldn’t be any more correct; life will never be the same. The tears will flow once again in this step, and while they don’t know it then, those tears will finally provide the healing their heart desires. Those solemn tears and lonely nights will mend them. One day they will be able talk about their loved one and remember them again in spirit, not death. In the midst of sorrow one may even laugh a little. This will allow them to enter the final stage of