“There has been this idea in the past that grief proceeds in the same somewhat lockstep sequence for everyone,” says  David Feldman, PhD, a professor of counseling psychology at Santa Clara University in California. “We now know it just doesn’t work that way. People often attack themselves for doing grief wrong when, really, we are all entitled to our own way.”

More information about the stages of grief and how Sam Feldman, founder of the National Widowers’ Organization, dealt with it can be found in a WebMD article by clicking here Special Report: Grief Stages .