It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Love has to come from within, if it is to come at all. And I'm still not there.

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.