How Will I Every Get Out of This Labyrinth?
At the recommendation of my niece, I recently read John Green’s book, Looking for Alaska. Although the book’s target audience is young adults, he offers some deeply moving insights that are useful for anyone who is grieving. My next few posts will focus on some of these insights, the first of which will also summarize a few key points from earlier posts. A primary theme in Looking for Alaska is the characters search for the meaning of a quote from Gabriel García Márquez’s his
The Truth About the Stages of Grief
A popular concept is there that are stages to grief that grievers must proceed through before they can gain any sense of normalcy. Others believe you can never truly recover from grief; that the best you can do create a “new normal” where grief is always lurking to take a swipe at you when you least expect it. Sigmund Freud was among the first to propose a series of stages to explain human development and adaptation to life changes, followed by other prominent theorists, such
