Yearning the strongest emotion
April 11, 2007 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Comfort Yourself
In a study on grief yearning was seen as the strongest emotion that you feel throughout the grief process. Here is a snippet of the article
” In looking at the five stages of grief — disbelief, yearning, anger, depression and acceptance — researchers found that yearning was the strongest emotion survivors felt during the grieving process. “ 
I would agree with that, wouldn’t you? That yearning to turn back time, that yearning to hold them again, that yearning for the pain to subside. I try as much as possible (!) to turn my yearning into something positive. To yearn for things in the future rather than the past, after all we can manage our future we cannot do anything about the past.
