When Elisabeth Kübler-Ross introduced the five stages of grief in 1969, it gave people language for a difficult and often isolating experience. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance quickly became a common way to describe the emotional landscape of loss. Over time, however, grief researchers and counselors have clarified an important truth: grief is not linear. You don’t graduate from…

Note: This post is written for a persona from our Grief Persona Quiz. If you haven’t identified what your persona is, please start here. For those who identify as the Open Heart, feelings are not meant to be buried. They are meant to be felt, shared, spoken, cried through, and expressed. Grief is not something you hide. This kind of…