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I read in the book "Motherless Daughters" that loss doesn't end at the funeral. You experience new loss each time you see how that person's role was missing in your life. I experienced loss at my graduation, wedding, birth of my children, divorce and every major event in my life. I lost the role...

No, that's not what I'm referring to at all. Processing emotional pain isn't listed in ANY of the traditional stages of grief which leads to confusion about what it means to grieve. New grievers and outsiders are confused about what it means to "accept" and wonder why there is still pain...

I'm so sorry this happened to you. A girl at work said to me once, "You never talk about your parents." No, I don't. I gave her my pat answer that I tell everyone when I don't want to be vulnerable in a conversation: "My mother died under tragic circumstances that are not the topic of...

I'm a little late to the party here, but my mother had told me at one point that if she ever killed me, her psychiatrist said he would testify that she was insane. Then, later, she died by suicide. I only felt relief at first and actually had nightmares that she was still alive and coming to get...

The big problem with listing these stages is that it gives the impression that acceptance is the final stage when those of us who have grieved the loss of a loved one know it doesn't end there. We then get ignorant advice to "let it go" or "move on" when we still feel pain years after the loved...