On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Grief shared is grief abated.

attention. What is left ungrieved remains stored in our body, heart, and soul. It can come out each time we experience loss anew.

What does seem to be important is that the bereaved are comforted by the thought and feeling that their loved one still exists somehow.

A part of the old you died with your loved one. And a part of your loved one lives on in the new you.

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not “get over” the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal, and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again, but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to.