The Grieving Process

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Our grieving process is based upon on our faith, our personality, and our experiences and thoughts towards life. People usually face different grieving process depending on their personality type. Knowing about these personality griefs can help one know what to do when someone or the person themselves have faced a loss and are going through the process of grieving. The types of personality griefs are Nomads, Memorialist, Normalizer, Activist, and the Seeker(“Types of Grief Personalities”). A person with a Nomad grief personality will often face all the emotions at once and possibly alternate back and forth between the emotions such as being angry, then depressed and then angry again. Memorialists likes to keep memories alive of their loved

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