How do I know if I'm grieving wrong or taking too long to heal?

Mirabai didn't grieve on anyone else's schedule. She loved Krishna so fiercely that her longing became devotion became art became freedom. There's no 'wrong' grief—only grief that's authentic to you. The real question isn't how long you're taking, but whether you're actually feeling it. Are you numb when you should be angry? Are you performing recovery for others instead of moving through what's actually there? The stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance—aren't a five-step program you graduate from. They're more like weather patterns that return, shift, overlap. Grief takes as long as it takes because it's not a problem to solve. It's a reorganization of your heart around an absence. If you're still crying six months later, a year later, that's not failure. That's fidelity to what you've lost. What matters is whether you're examining your grief or just enduring it—whether you're letting it teach you something about what mattered, what still matters.