Lessons Learned in Loss

I was speaking to a friend on yesterday and she was recounting the death of her dog. We had not been in touch for quite awhile because I had been away during the illness and final transition of my mother. She was obvioiusly quite upset about her loss and I realized that what I had to share were the lessons I learned during my grieving process. There are many ideas about how to go through grief. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote a book about the stages of grieving. My conversations with others who have suffered loss seems to confirm that there are definitely different periods