Mourning vs. Grieving...We need both.

Webster's is not necessarily going to be in alignment with this, but for clarity into the mourning process let's define them this way:

• GRIEF is the internal process of feeling a loss. It included numbness, shock, sadness, the depression of grief, and lots of squirrelly hard-to-diagnose feelings of malaise, fatigue as well as a host of serial challenges to our health.
  
  Grief gets very, very real when it comes to our health.
  
  
• MOURNING is the public face of grief. Our first-world culture of speed, efficiency and more-is-better does not usually support our need to process grief and time to accept the reality of our losses.

These are concepts that Dr. Alan Wolfelt, PhD has parsed and clarified in his many books and articles. It is also the philosophy and approach that Garden of Change takes.

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