Through all six stages, grief and guilt are a given. ... have at it. If, like me, you’re among siblings, this is the lottery phase. It’s when you draw numbers out of a hat and take turns.

“Expecting grief to unfold in neat, predictable stages can be misleading,” Bowdler notes. Instead, we might experience grief as a swirling mix of emotions that ebb and flow unpredictably.

As you say, there's the imperative to avoid grieving too much. I think it's being good at grief. In my sense, that was keeping it low being getting through it.

Grief doesn't always arrive in predictable stages. You can mourn before a person has even died. And you can feel guilty for starting to feel good. Because as licensed psychotherapist Gina Moffa ...

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