Whoa! Grief triggers are sending me backwards once again! Today didn’t start out well. Some old issues connected with my husband’s death came up again. And boy, it knocked me down and sent me back to what feels like square one. Just like that, I was tossed back into the…
At some point after your spouse passes away, you wonder what to do about your wedding ring. Should you keep wearing it? Should you take it off? At first, I couldn’t bear even the thought of taking off my wedding band, anniversary ring and engagement ring. But after a while,…
Sometimes stages are mentioned in connection with grief, in particular the five stages of grief according to Dr. Kübler-Ross. The stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. However these stages were originally meant to describe the emotions terminally ill people might go through. Applying them to grief after the…