GRIEF IN STAGES.......OR NOT!

I'm sure you've probably heard about Elizabeth Kubler-Ross' stages of grief.  Unfortunately, those of us that work in the field of loss and grief, regard them now as too methodical, too linear and don't like referring to them as the be-all and end-all.  Jackson Rainer says it well:  "Grief is a sloppy process; nothing about it is efficient."