The stages of grief are not a0 or sequential.

It is true that the five stages of grief are not experience in a neat or sequential order because others do not have to go through the five stages in order to heal. Some people resolve their grief without going through any of these stages of Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. 

In addition, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a psychiatrist introduced what became known as the “five stages of grief.”