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# The three paths of grief
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2013/12/the_three_paths_of_grief/
- Published: 2013-12-07T12:49:02.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-31T13:16:10.000Z
- Description: There's many paths through grief, but none of them are easy.
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: bereavement, grief, psychology, life

[What grief can be](http://m.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/the-things-you-ll-miss/281992/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> Even stranger, I discovered, is that I wasn’t strange, at all. Despite the warnings that grief would drag me through the prescribed five stages and discard me in a darker place, bereavement researchers have recently learned that we’ve been wrong about loss for centuries. For some, grief is a dull and unrelenting ache that fades–or doesn’t. But for many of us, grief is something else. Grief is resilience.

Words that are keeping me going through a pretty bleak week. There a three paths of grief, and the easiest one has a surprising beginning.