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are grieving stages real

What You Really Need to Know About 'Grieving Stages'

What you really need to know about grieving stages is that, for the most part, they are a myth. It's…
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Disenfranchised Grieving: Why you can't judge grief by a title

I want to petition the internet, nay, the world, to stop defining, measuring, or comparing people's grief based on title…
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Why do People Think we Move On After Death?

I always wanted an imaginary friend as a child, but my mind wouldn't stretch far enough. I envied kids who…
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What the Newly Bereaved Should Know

Hello to the newly bereaved. I'm sorry to meet you here in the place where loved ones leave you —…
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We Don't Recover From Grief, and that's Okay

After some discussion with our insightful readers, we're adding a brief preface to this article.  We feel it's important to…
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8 Suggestions for Coping With Grief

Suggestion #1: Recognize that no set of steps, tasks, stages, or method could ever tell you how to get over,…
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I would tell my younger self that...

64 Things Our Readers Would Tell Their Younger Selves About Grief

We've been engaged in a bit of dialogue over on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram about the things our readers would…
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The Reality of Growth and Grief: where the hell is my rainbow?

If you regularly read WYG you might have noticed that Eleanor and I can be a wee bit pessimistic from time to…
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9 Reasons It Is Not Crazy To Grieve A Celebrity Death

Raise your hand if David Bowie's death hit you harder than you expected.  Okay, I can't see you; you can't…
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