Important Programming Note 12 January 2006
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PROGRAMMING NOTE: I have registered the domain nodressrehearsal.org and will likely be moving this blog to its own server at that address soon. In the mean time, if you point your browser to http://www.nodressrehearsal.org,you will get to this site. Computer gods willing, I will be keeping the WordPress platform because I really like it, as well as the current layout, which I also happen to like. I hope you do, too. Stay tuned.
Making peace 12 January 2006
Posted by nodress in breakup, divorce, grief, marriage, personal.1 comment so far
After the four-year relationship preceding my marriage ended, my analyst told me to read On Death And Dying by the late psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. This seminal work on the subject of grief introduced the five stages of grief: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. While at first blush, it may seem odd to read a book about a psychiatrist’s interactions with terminally ill patients when coping with something like the end of a relationship, but when I read it back in 2000, I could see the parallels in my grieving process. (more…)
