Jun 17, 2026 · 20 min · 15 segments
The 6 Stages of Grief: Name What You’re Feeling and Move Through It Laura Mangum Broome explains how naming grief can reduce shame and help people move through loss, drawing from her experience of…
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Laura Mangum-BroomHostMost of us have heard the phrase, the stages of grief, but a lot of what we think we know about them may not be correct.
The original five stages of grief were developed by a psychiatrist named Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
Based on her direct work with terminally ill patients, she was one of the first people to take grief seriously as a clinical and human experience and to give it structure.
You will not move through them in order, on a schedule, and then arrive at the end with a gold star.
Kubler-Ross herself said the stages are like pieces of a puzzle, not a ladder you climb.
They're a map, and a map only helps you if you understand what you're looking at.
In 2019, grief expert David Kessler, who worked closely with Kubler-Ross before her death, wrote a book called Finding Meaning, The Sixth Stage of Grief.
And what he added to her framework changed the conversation in a profound way.
Because after years of working with grieving people, Kessler recognized that acceptance wasn't the end.
For many people, healing requires something more, something we don't talk about nearly enough.
Most of us have heard the phrase, the stages of grief, but a lot of what we think we know about them may not be correct.
The original five stages of grief were developed by a psychiatrist named Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
Based on her direct work with terminally ill patients, she was one of the first people to take grief seriously as a clinical and human experience and to give it structure.
You will not move through them in order, on a schedule, and then arrive at the end with a gold star.
Kubler-Ross herself said the stages are like pieces of a puzzle, not a ladder you climb.
They're a map, and a map only helps you if you understand what you're looking at.
In 2019, grief expert David Kessler, who worked closely with Kubler-Ross before her death, wrote a book called Finding Meaning, The Sixth Stage of Grief.
And what he added to her framework changed the conversation in a profound way.
Because after years of working with grieving people, Kessler recognized that acceptance wasn't the end.
For many people, healing requires something more, something we don't talk about nearly enough.
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