About the Guest
Ron Deal
Ron Deal is Director of FamilyLife Blended®️ for FamilyLife®️ and President of Smart Stepfamilies™️. He is a family ministry consultant and conducts marriage and family seminars around the country; he specializes in marriage education and stepfamily enrichment. He is one of the most widely read authors on stepfamily living in the country.
About the Host
Ron Deal
Ron Deal is Director of FamilyLife Blended®️ for FamilyLife®️ and President of Smart Stepfamilies™️. He is a family ministry consultant and conducts marriage and family seminars around the country; he specializes in marriage education and stepfamily enrichment. He is one of the most widely read authors on stepfamily living in the country.
Episode Transcript
Ron: Today, I’m on my soapbox.
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: There are five stages of grief, right? Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and then acceptance. But this stage model from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross applied to people who are dying not those left behind. She studied anticipatory grief and that’s it. And, I can’t find any empirical evidence that says these stages exist let alone that you go through them in any particular order. But still we apply her model to all forms of grief, from the loss of a child, to divorce, to dead cats.
Look, grief is a journey not a destination and you can’t predict the path. Don’t program grief. Just walk the journey with God and the people who love you. For FamilyLife Blended, I’m Ron Deal.
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