Culled from Grief.com Although we all deal with loss in our own way it is safe to say that there is usually a grieving period within which we often feel an array of emotions. These emotions have been placed into a staged system known as the Five Stages of Healing , broken-down to denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. These stages are a part of the framework that can be reflected on as a means of we can use when moving though the experience of losing someone. DENIAL: This first stage of grieving helps us to survive the loss. In this stage, the world becomes meaningless and overwhelming. Life makes no sense. We are in a state of shock and denial. We go numb. We wonder how we can go on, if we can go on, why we should go on. We try to find a way to simply get through each day. Denial and shock help us to cope and make survival possible. Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature’s way of letting in only as ...