What I Learned About Resilience in the Midst of Grief (greatergood.berkeley.edu)
Losing her daughter put Lucy Hone's resilience research to the test. Parental bereavement is considered to be the hardest of all losses to bear , meaning that, when you lose a child, you are swamped with support—some of it helpful, some less so. In the days after the girls died, we were told we should expect to write off the next five years to grief, and handed pamphlets explaining how “grief is as individual as a fingerprint” and outlining Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief .