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Grief is not a process with five stages. It is shattered glass
The five stages describe a grief that’s knowable and controlled. An accident in my kitchen helped me find a truer metaphor
Even though she lived in Seattle, on the opposite coast from our home in Connecticut, she was an active, doting, mischievous and proud grandmother to my son, with whom she developed a unique connection, despite seeing him infrequently. As if the steady schedule of visits to specialists and diagnosticians wasn’t draining enough on top of managing her daily care at home, a handful of sprints to the emergency department kept us continually on guard. When you lose a loved one, a natural first impulse is to focus on managing the situation to contain the harm so that it doesn’t spill over into adjacent areas of life: work, casual friendships or the checkout line of the grocery store.
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