Philosophical
What if grief is a skill, not a feeling?
Most people treat grief like a problem to get through. Something to recover from. Jenkinson sees it differently: grief is a skill you practice, like learning a language.
Grief is not a feeling. It is a capacity. It is not something that washes over you. It's something you must be willing to learn.— Stephen Jenkinson
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The thinker
Teacher of Grief & Dying
Stephen Jenkinson is a Canadian author, teacher, and former palliative care counselor who spent years at the bedsides of dying people and now teaches about death, grief, and culture.
Based on Stephen Jenkinson — Die Wise, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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