Counselor Carl explains how the five stages of grief overlap and repeat.
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The stages of grief are overlapping and recycling. So even though we tend to move through them sequentially, we will also move back and forth between them and even recycle through them repeatedly in smaller circles over time. We will also find ourselves in more than one stage at a time, so don’t think of them as strictly distinct or linear, but rather view each succeeding stage as becoming more dominant over time as we progress down the path of grieving.
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