Second Firsts: A Step-by-Step Guide to Life After LossI know you are afraid. I know you are grieving. But you are not meant to grieve forever. After studying to become a therapist and crisis intervention counselor even doing her master's thesis on the stages of bereavement Christina Rasmussen thought she understood grief. But it wasn't until losing her husband to cancer in her early 30s that she truly grasped the depths of sorrow and pain that accompany loss. Rasmussen discovered that there were two