The Space for maybe

We’re told that acceptance is the “final stage” of grief, and for so long, that seemed so far out of my reach that I couldn’t even imagine it. It was always my understanding that once we reached this stage, we were done with the grieving process, and for me, that just didn’t seem possible. But while I don’t necessarily advocate the use of an umbrella concept to explain the complexity of grief, it does make me wonder why acceptance only happens at the end.