Pauline Boss — Navigating Loss Without Closure
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Loss and Grief - Is There a Linear Stage?
We have a cultural vocabulary of grief that was very much formed by elizabeth coopler ross and her delineating the five stages of grief, nineteen sixty nine. To day, the new research in grief and loss does not recommend linear stages. We now know that living with grief is more oscillations of up and down. And those ups and downs get farther apart over time, but they never completely go away. The downs, of feeling blue, of feeling sad. This should be normalized. And sadness is treated with human connection....
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