The Seven Stages of Grief Are Not One Size Fits All

Steffany Ritchie
5 min readOct 19, 2022

Grieving an estranged parent has left me adrift with some of the patented grief advice

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Today I got really angry at my dad. My dead dad. Again. The anger had mellowed recently, perhaps muted by the guilt and sadness of the grief I have been feeling, which had also faded for a while. I thought I was done with anger.

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Steffany Ritchie

Hi, I write memoir, humor, music, and pop culture. American in Scotland.