Today is Grief Awareness Day…

According to the website,National Today,August 30 is Grief Awareness Day.It was founded in 2014 by Angie Cartwright,public speaker and activist,with the intention of raising awareness and educating our society on grief.Persistent,traumatic grief can cause us to cycle,through the stages of grief:denial,anger,bargaining,depression,acceptance.These stages are our attempts to process change and protect ourselves while we adapt to a new reality.Depression is the longest and most difficult stage of grief.Grief is the response to loss,particularly to the loss of someone or some living thing that has died,to which a bond or affection was formed.Although focus on the emotional response to loss,grief also has physical,cognitive,behavioral,social,cultural,spiritual and philosophical dimensions.