We’re all familiar with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s iconic five stages of dying and grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. What you may not be familiar with is the origin of the ...

Grief doesn’t move in straight lines. Understanding common psychological models can help you recognize where you are, and why ...

How do we mourn what we’ve lost? To the Ancient Greeks, the answer lay in elegy. Derived from the Greek word “elegos,” meaning a song of lament, elegy was a form of poetry to commemorate the loss of a ...

"Walking Through the Grieving Process" is an appropriate expression for what we need to do after the death of someone close to us. We must keep moving physically, mentally and emotionally, no matter ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. McGill Desautels Faculty professor covering leadership and strategy. When Paul Simard calls grief “a gift,” he means it in the ...