How long does grief take?
A. The real answer is that grief takes as long as it takes–a week, a month, a year or more depending on who we have lost and how this death impacts us. Grief is a process we must move through, not over or around. Even when we can temporarily deny our pain, it still exists. It will eventually erupt in some way, maybe at an inappropriate moment or during another upset or illness. It is always better to allow strong feelings, to feel them, and to move through them in order to move beyond them.
