In the midst of this slow inversion of acceptance over distress, there tends to be a temporary reversal around each anniversary of the death, when many people experience a normal recurrence of their grief. The journey doesn’t typically have a clear beginning, middle, and end that we may hope for, or that our loved ones may hope for us, in the midst of our distress. On the waves of grief, eventually acceptance rises more often, and distress falls off in intensity without completely disappearing.
