CLARKSVILLE, TN – Grief rarely arrives with permission. It doesn’t wait for a convenient moment or follow a predictable timeline. It shows up after a death, yes, but also after a diagnosis, a divorce, the loss of independence, or a life that no longer looks the way we expected.
And despite how common grief is, two Austin Peay State University nursing professors say grief remains widely misunderstood.
In an article published last fall in the American Nurse Journal, Dr. Leslie Binford, assistant professor, and Dr. Debra Rose Wilson, Lenora C. Reuther Chair of Excellence, examine grief not only as an emotional experience, but as a health issue with measurable effects on the body…