There Are Not Five Stages of Grief

October 5, 2019

Sharon and Erica debunk the myth of the five stages of grief and how they do not apply to grievers.  The sages of grief were developed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross for people in the process of dying not for the grievers who were left behind. 

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