How Long

This was on the Getting Your Breath Back Facebook page. It's a quote from Elisabeth Kubler Ross who wrote a few amazing grief books.


Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over a loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.