My partner and I are both grief researchers and we know intellectually that the stages model is oversimplified, but when his mom died last month we both caught ourselves trying to track which stage he was in. We can't seem to escape the thing we spend our careers critiquing.
More people experience this than they realize.
Intellectual understanding of grief's complexity doesn't automatically translate to embodied wisdom when loss arrives at your door.
“Where Are You with The stages of grief — examined and critiqued?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.