I have been a longtime admirer of the late Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.  She was a pioneer known for her loving-kindness and compassion.  Her “stages of grief,” as you probably already know, are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.  I have found in my experience as a grief counselor that people tend to expect that grief will flow easily from one stage to the next and then get confused when it doesn’t happen like that to them. (more…)