9/19/2022
We began by exploring the stages of grief and which one we felt we identified most with: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. A lot of us seemed to resonate most with Depression, and Acceptance of where we are in the moment. Others are facing their Anger, their Denial and Bargaining. Whether they are recounting the last days/weeks/months/years with their loved one or feeling that they may have not done enough, or just wanting to return to the way things were prior to the death. It is almost as if we have one foot in the living and another in the dying. We talked about how quickly our lives can change. We can go to bed one night and wake up and everything around us feels different, unsettled, uncertain, and unrecognizable. One individual proclaimed it is like fleeting stability. Everything feels shaky, unchartered. Like you just got off a roller coaster and everything is spinning and you have no control. We are finding as we go into this next season that ...
