Grief as Spiritual Formation | Lean In and Breathe

Grief as Spiritual Formation | Lean In and Breathe

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of columns on grief as spiritual formation. She wasn’t happy about it in her later years. First working with dying patients in the hospital and then working with thousands of grieving people all over the world, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross gave us vocabulary for some of the feelings we experience when dealing with grief. In popular culture, that collection of feelings evolved into rigid, sequential steps tha…