The Grief Cycle of Diagnosis

Nisha Kumar Kulkarni
5 min readOct 14, 2019

No one tells you that grief will play a big role in your post-diagnosis life.

Earlier this year, I was reading creative coach Jen Carrington’s newsletter and, in it, she mentions the grief cycle of chronic illness. It was a brief mention, but I could not get her words out of my head. I thought about what they meant and found myself understanding my post-diagnosis thoughts and feelings in a wholly new and…

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Nisha Kumar Kulkarni

freelance writer & editor | writing coach | chronic illness advocate