Make Sense of Your Grief
The Early Days
The Fog
Understanding Your Grief
We often hear parents say that they don't know if what their grief is “normal.” Most have never experienced such a loss before, and its natural to not know what to expect.
We find that parents cope better when they understand how grief works. There is a simple-to-understand model that accounts for your grief as a widowed parent, called the Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement.
The model was created by Drs. Margaret Stroebe and Henk Schut. Watch this 5-minute video to better understand the grieving process: