My August Book Club recommendation is “On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss” by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler.

The Grief Cycle is something I learned back from the original book “On Death and Dying.” I was a young mom and still trying to make sense of the feelings I had surrounding the death of my mom when I was only 18. I went to a therapist for the first time and she recommended me the book and it made complete sense.

The Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. I loved learning how I could travel in and out of the different stages and that they didn’t have to happen in order.

This was again super applicable to me during my divorce and I was thankful I already had the knowledge. My divorced was very similar to the death of a loved one except sometimes I would still sometimes see his ghost. He looked kind of like the person I had loved and been married to yet was so completely different. He was way closer to that of a stranger than the man I loved and built a family with.

During the divorce,

my kids and I were able to talk and process through this cycle. Honestly, there was a time when we were all in the anger phase and it got super tricky. I love that in it we were also very empathetic to the trial we were in that we acknowledged why we were feeling and reacting the way we were. I loved that we talked about our feelings so much.

How has grief impacted you in your life? Have you found grief in loss from a divorce as well?

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