05/12/2020
On my own journey with grief, I’ve found it really useful to understand the stages I’m traveling through, and to pin point where I am on the journey. Experiencing loss can be incredibly disorientating. Suddenly you find yourself in a different world to the one you knew before. It can take all you have to stay afloat. Sometimes no matter your coping strategies, you are pulled down into the depths. One of the ways to reorient yourself is to label where you are in your own grief journey. For myself, I have found the journey through the depression stage of grief to acceptance the hardest to navigate. And yet even in those moments of despair it was useful to remind myself that this profound dark night of the soul was actually useful, it was serving a purpose. The band-aid of denial (which also served a purpose at the time) was being ripped off and my wounds needed air to heal. I was terrified and yet I was exactly where I needed to be to move forwards.
Thank you for sharing this great graphic of the grief cycle 😍
