If you want to understand bereavement, you need to realize there is a difference between grief and mourning.

Grief is a person’s internal experience, thoughts and feelings related to the experience of a great loss.

Mourning is the external expression of one’s grief.

So, a person may experience extremely painful grief but, because of a need to appear stoic, may not mourn.

Are you grieving or mourning?

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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