Grief Doesn’t Have a Timeline: Letting Go of Society’s Expectations By Nora Biette-Timmons It’s almost a rite of passage, googling “stages of grief” when you’re grieving, supporting a loved one who’s grieving, or preparing to enter a period of grieving. The idea that there are stages—that we will move through certain emotional states in a particular order—is comforting; it suggests that this pain will someday not only be lessened but over. That’s not the way grief works. S...
