Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function,

but the knee never actually heals.

– Jason Reynolds

The five stages – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance –  are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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The Compassionate Friends are not the only resource for dealing with grief. We encourage you to investigate different resources in your journey. After all, the objective is to get you into a place where you can manage your grief.

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    The Compassionate Friends Of Hamilton and Area is a chapter of

    The Compassionate Friends Of Canada

    The information on this website was last updated:

    February 22, 2023

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