Author: Diane Brennan
Publisher: Rockridge Press
ISBN: 9781638070580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Work through the grief of losing your mom with daily prompts for adult daughters Losing your mother can feel like a tidal wave of grief that knocks the breath out of you--but with time and the right tools, you can begin to heal. No matter what kind of relationship you had with your mom or where you are in the grieving process, this guided mother-daughter journal provides daily wisdom and writing prompts to help you reflect on your loss, move forward, and thrive again. Find support after loss--Cope with difficult emotions and experiences following the loss of your mother, from immediately afterward to months and years into the future. Discover a path forward--Explore ways to keep your mother-daughter connection alive and move on without letting go. Journal your own way--There's no right or wrong way to grieve--complete this journal from start to finish, or jump to the prompts that are most relevant to you. Navigate your grief with help from the supportive prompts in this mom memory journal for adult daughters.
A Daughter's Grief Journal
Author: Diane Brennan
Publisher: Rockridge Press
ISBN: 9781638070580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Work through the grief of losing your mom with daily prompts for adult daughters Losing your mother can feel like a tidal wave of grief that knocks the breath out of you--but with time and the right tools, you can begin to heal. No matter what kind of relationship you had with your mom or where you are in the grieving process, this guided mother-daughter journal provides daily wisdom and writing prompts to help you reflect on your loss, move forward, and thrive again. Find support after loss--Cope with difficult emotions and experiences following the loss of your mother, from immediately afterward to months and years into the future. Discover a path forward--Explore ways to keep your mother-daughter connection alive and move on without letting go. Journal your own way--There's no right or wrong way to grieve--complete this journal from start to finish, or jump to the prompts that are most relevant to you. Navigate your grief with help from the supportive prompts in this mom memory journal for adult daughters.
Publisher: Rockridge Press
ISBN: 9781638070580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Work through the grief of losing your mom with daily prompts for adult daughters Losing your mother can feel like a tidal wave of grief that knocks the breath out of you--but with time and the right tools, you can begin to heal. No matter what kind of relationship you had with your mom or where you are in the grieving process, this guided mother-daughter journal provides daily wisdom and writing prompts to help you reflect on your loss, move forward, and thrive again. Find support after loss--Cope with difficult emotions and experiences following the loss of your mother, from immediately afterward to months and years into the future. Discover a path forward--Explore ways to keep your mother-daughter connection alive and move on without letting go. Journal your own way--There's no right or wrong way to grieve--complete this journal from start to finish, or jump to the prompts that are most relevant to you. Navigate your grief with help from the supportive prompts in this mom memory journal for adult daughters.
Missing My Mom: 99+ Prompts Guided Grief Journal to Help You Heal the Loss of Your Mom
Author: Resi Gracen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Losing someone you love dearly like a Mom can be a difficult situation to deal with mentally and emotionally. This Grief journal helps you cope with your lose. This guided prompts workbook journal hopes to provide a way to express those thoughts on paper and create a memory book to cherish the memories, as well as, help with the healing process . Grief Journal with 120 pages including Writing Prompts to use as a tool and diary to grieve and mourn your loved one. The pages include sections to write your best memories, things you'd like to tell them, hardest parts of your day, and things that reminded you of your loved ones. A grief guided journal will help you speak your truth without judgement, untangle confusing thoughts, honor your loved one, and explore your continuing narrative in your life after loss. "Missing my Mom" memory book... will help you healing the loss of your Mom & move forward on your grief journey with grief journal prompts. This is not to imply that you "let go" or "move on." You will always love the one you lost! But we do need to both mourn our loss and continue to live our own life. This journal includes: * Up to 100+ prompts to help recall and reflect on memories about your Mom like: A memory of you I will always remember ..., The best advice I got from you..., Things I wish I'd told you..., Since you're gone, I find it difficult to..., The things that help me most right now are... * Lined paper to write down your thoughts, as well as, stick photos on it too * Additional lined paper for more content * A front page to personalize with a message or journal's owner name * 6" x 9" size
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Losing someone you love dearly like a Mom can be a difficult situation to deal with mentally and emotionally. This Grief journal helps you cope with your lose. This guided prompts workbook journal hopes to provide a way to express those thoughts on paper and create a memory book to cherish the memories, as well as, help with the healing process . Grief Journal with 120 pages including Writing Prompts to use as a tool and diary to grieve and mourn your loved one. The pages include sections to write your best memories, things you'd like to tell them, hardest parts of your day, and things that reminded you of your loved ones. A grief guided journal will help you speak your truth without judgement, untangle confusing thoughts, honor your loved one, and explore your continuing narrative in your life after loss. "Missing my Mom" memory book... will help you healing the loss of your Mom & move forward on your grief journey with grief journal prompts. This is not to imply that you "let go" or "move on." You will always love the one you lost! But we do need to both mourn our loss and continue to live our own life. This journal includes: * Up to 100+ prompts to help recall and reflect on memories about your Mom like: A memory of you I will always remember ..., The best advice I got from you..., Things I wish I'd told you..., Since you're gone, I find it difficult to..., The things that help me most right now are... * Lined paper to write down your thoughts, as well as, stick photos on it too * Additional lined paper for more content * A front page to personalize with a message or journal's owner name * 6" x 9" size
Healing After the Loss of Your Mother
Author: Elaine Mallon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733538909
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Elaine Mallon is not an expert on grief. She's someone who lost her mother suddenly and unexpectedly. She knows the magnitude of this heartbreak firsthand. Devastated and unprepared for how life-changing and painful processing the loss would be, she found herself wondering: "Where's the manual?" and "How do I do this?"Like a compassionate friend, Mallon captures the raw, universal pain of losing your mother with empathy, honesty and eloquence. She tenderly walks the reader through each step of the grieving process, offering straightforward answers to many common questions and addressing fears faced by those grieving, as well. This is a must-read, essential guidebook for anyone uncertain about what to do or where to turn after their mother's loss.For those hoping to help a loved one through grief, this book also offers direction on how to comfort someone who is grieving by explaining what they are going through and how to be most helpful to them.If you've lost your mother, please know this: If you're grieving, you're healing - and you are not alone.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733538909
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Elaine Mallon is not an expert on grief. She's someone who lost her mother suddenly and unexpectedly. She knows the magnitude of this heartbreak firsthand. Devastated and unprepared for how life-changing and painful processing the loss would be, she found herself wondering: "Where's the manual?" and "How do I do this?"Like a compassionate friend, Mallon captures the raw, universal pain of losing your mother with empathy, honesty and eloquence. She tenderly walks the reader through each step of the grieving process, offering straightforward answers to many common questions and addressing fears faced by those grieving, as well. This is a must-read, essential guidebook for anyone uncertain about what to do or where to turn after their mother's loss.For those hoping to help a loved one through grief, this book also offers direction on how to comfort someone who is grieving by explaining what they are going through and how to be most helpful to them.If you've lost your mother, please know this: If you're grieving, you're healing - and you are not alone.
Healing After Loss
Author: Martha W. Hickman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061925772
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
The classic guide for dealing with grief and loss. Daily reflections to find solace in our own lives, and comfort in the connection of sharing these meditations with countless others. After the focus on planning and outpouring of love from family and friends in the immediate aftermath following the loss of a loved one, we are left to enter a new version of our lives where someone important is missing. For days, months, years, the pain of the loss can crash in all at once. It is tempting to push that wave of grief back and soldier on with our new lives, but the loss will never lose its controlling power if we don’t find the courage and love to face it. Meditating on the loss, along with the rush of love that comes with it, gives us a chance to rejoice in the life that was shared, and to look forward in which memories of our loved ones continue to bless us. The short, poignant meditations given here follow the course of the year, but it is not a necessity to follow them chronologically. They will strengthen, inspire, and give comfort for as long as they are needed.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061925772
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
The classic guide for dealing with grief and loss. Daily reflections to find solace in our own lives, and comfort in the connection of sharing these meditations with countless others. After the focus on planning and outpouring of love from family and friends in the immediate aftermath following the loss of a loved one, we are left to enter a new version of our lives where someone important is missing. For days, months, years, the pain of the loss can crash in all at once. It is tempting to push that wave of grief back and soldier on with our new lives, but the loss will never lose its controlling power if we don’t find the courage and love to face it. Meditating on the loss, along with the rush of love that comes with it, gives us a chance to rejoice in the life that was shared, and to look forward in which memories of our loved ones continue to bless us. The short, poignant meditations given here follow the course of the year, but it is not a necessity to follow them chronologically. They will strengthen, inspire, and give comfort for as long as they are needed.
I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die
Author: Sarah J. Robinson
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0593193539
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0593193539
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.
Too Much Loss: Coping with Grief Overload
Author: Alan Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
ISBN: 1617222887
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Grief overload is what you feel when you experience too many significant losses all at once, in a relatively short period of time, or cumulatively. In addition to the deaths of loved ones, such losses can also include divorce, estrangement, illness, relocation, job changes, and more. Our minds and hearts have enough trouble coping with a single loss, so when the losses pile up, the grief often seems especially chaotic and defeating. The good news is that through intentional, active mourning, you can and will find your way back to hope and healing. This compassionate guide will show you how.
Publisher: Companion Press
ISBN: 1617222887
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Grief overload is what you feel when you experience too many significant losses all at once, in a relatively short period of time, or cumulatively. In addition to the deaths of loved ones, such losses can also include divorce, estrangement, illness, relocation, job changes, and more. Our minds and hearts have enough trouble coping with a single loss, so when the losses pile up, the grief often seems especially chaotic and defeating. The good news is that through intentional, active mourning, you can and will find your way back to hope and healing. This compassionate guide will show you how.
Remembering My Mom: a Guided Journal to Cherish Our Memories
Author: Barbara Mason
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
This is the perfect guided journal for someone who is grieving the loss of their mother. "Remembering My Mom" is a keepsake grief journal to help capture the most precious memories of your mother after her death. Each page of this journal contains a memory prompt that will ask a question about your mother, your favorite memories of her, things you did together, her favorite things, etc.Time and age can cause us to forget some of these memories. That's why it's so important to have a journal like this to write in.To use this book, take one day a week to reflect on the moments you shared and allow them to bring you to a place of healing and strength but most of all, a deep heartfelt gratitude for being able to call her MOM. This journal is also an excellent sympathy gift for anyone who has lost their mom to help aid in grief therapy and healing.Some of my favorite memory prompts from the book are:1. The best character trait I got from my mom is...2. My mom always made we wear...3. The best meal my mom ever cooked was ...Those are precious memories. This journal is a great way to celebrate the life of your mother and cherish the special memories you created together. You don't have to think of what to write. There are 50+ prompts to guide you on the journey of your grief and the loss of your mother. You can simply take one day a week at your own pace and cherish the moments you spent together.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
This is the perfect guided journal for someone who is grieving the loss of their mother. "Remembering My Mom" is a keepsake grief journal to help capture the most precious memories of your mother after her death. Each page of this journal contains a memory prompt that will ask a question about your mother, your favorite memories of her, things you did together, her favorite things, etc.Time and age can cause us to forget some of these memories. That's why it's so important to have a journal like this to write in.To use this book, take one day a week to reflect on the moments you shared and allow them to bring you to a place of healing and strength but most of all, a deep heartfelt gratitude for being able to call her MOM. This journal is also an excellent sympathy gift for anyone who has lost their mom to help aid in grief therapy and healing.Some of my favorite memory prompts from the book are:1. The best character trait I got from my mom is...2. My mom always made we wear...3. The best meal my mom ever cooked was ...Those are precious memories. This journal is a great way to celebrate the life of your mother and cherish the special memories you created together. You don't have to think of what to write. There are 50+ prompts to guide you on the journey of your grief and the loss of your mother. You can simply take one day a week at your own pace and cherish the moments you spent together.
Dear Mom, I Just Want to Say: 99+ Prompts Guided Grief Journal to Help You Heal the Loss of Your Mom
Author: Resi Gracen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
First of all, we extend our deepest sympathies to you and your family. May the soul of your Mom rest in peace. Losing someone you love dearly like a Mom can be a difficult situation to deal with mentally and emotionally. This Grief journal helps you cope with your lose. This guided prompts workbook journal hopes to provide a way to express those thoughts on paper and create a memory book to cherish the memories, as well as, help with the healing process . Grief Journal with 120 pages including Writing Prompts to use as a tool and diary to grieve and mourn your loved one. The pages include sections to write your best memories, things you'd like to tell them, hardest parts of your day, and things that reminded you of your loved ones. A grief guided journal will help you speak your truth without judgement, untangle confusing thoughts, honor your loved one, and explore your continuing narrative in your life after loss. "Dear Mom, I Just Want to Say" memory book... will help you healing the loss of your Mom & move forward on your grief journey with grief journal prompts. This is not to imply that you "let go" or "move on." You will always love the one you lost! But we do need to both mourn our loss and continue to live our own life. This journal includes: * Up to 100+ prompts to help recall and reflect on memories about your Mom like: A memory of you I will always remember ..., The best advice I got from you..., Things I wish I'd told you..., Since you're gone, I find it difficult to..., The things that help me most right now are... * Lined paper to write down your thoughts, as well as, stick photos on it too * Additional lined paper for more content * A front page to personalize with a message or journal's owner name * 6" x 9" size
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
First of all, we extend our deepest sympathies to you and your family. May the soul of your Mom rest in peace. Losing someone you love dearly like a Mom can be a difficult situation to deal with mentally and emotionally. This Grief journal helps you cope with your lose. This guided prompts workbook journal hopes to provide a way to express those thoughts on paper and create a memory book to cherish the memories, as well as, help with the healing process . Grief Journal with 120 pages including Writing Prompts to use as a tool and diary to grieve and mourn your loved one. The pages include sections to write your best memories, things you'd like to tell them, hardest parts of your day, and things that reminded you of your loved ones. A grief guided journal will help you speak your truth without judgement, untangle confusing thoughts, honor your loved one, and explore your continuing narrative in your life after loss. "Dear Mom, I Just Want to Say" memory book... will help you healing the loss of your Mom & move forward on your grief journey with grief journal prompts. This is not to imply that you "let go" or "move on." You will always love the one you lost! But we do need to both mourn our loss and continue to live our own life. This journal includes: * Up to 100+ prompts to help recall and reflect on memories about your Mom like: A memory of you I will always remember ..., The best advice I got from you..., Things I wish I'd told you..., Since you're gone, I find it difficult to..., The things that help me most right now are... * Lined paper to write down your thoughts, as well as, stick photos on it too * Additional lined paper for more content * A front page to personalize with a message or journal's owner name * 6" x 9" size
Forever in My Heart
Author: Tanya Carroll Richardson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1612436234
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Questions, suggestions, and prompts for immortalizing the memories of a loved one who has passed on. Celebrate the life of your loved one. Keep their spirit close in your heart. Remember and cherish your time together. Filled with touching and inspiring prompts, Forever in My Heart is a comforting journal for recording your reflections on your loved one's extraordinary life, their unique traits, and all the many experiences and traditions you shared. This journal will help you explore your emotions, say things that were left unsaid, connect with your loved one's spirit, and find healing through writing.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1612436234
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Questions, suggestions, and prompts for immortalizing the memories of a loved one who has passed on. Celebrate the life of your loved one. Keep their spirit close in your heart. Remember and cherish your time together. Filled with touching and inspiring prompts, Forever in My Heart is a comforting journal for recording your reflections on your loved one's extraordinary life, their unique traits, and all the many experiences and traditions you shared. This journal will help you explore your emotions, say things that were left unsaid, connect with your loved one's spirit, and find healing through writing.
Ambiguous Loss
Author: Pauline BOSS
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674028589
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
When a loved one dies we mourn our loss. We take comfort in the rituals that mark the passing, and we turn to those around us for support. But what happens when there is no closure, when a family member or a friend who may be still alive is lost to us nonetheless? How, for example, does the mother whose soldier son is missing in action, or the family of an Alzheimer's patient who is suffering from severe dementia, deal with the uncertainty surrounding this kind of loss? In this sensitive and lucid account, Pauline Boss explains that, all too often, those confronted with such ambiguous loss fluctuate between hope and hopelessness. Suffered too long, these emotions can deaden feeling and make it impossible for people to move on with their lives. Yet the central message of this book is that they can move on. Drawing on her research and clinical experience, Boss suggests strategies that can cushion the pain and help families come to terms with their grief. Her work features the heartening narratives of those who cope with ambiguous loss and manage to leave their sadness behind, including those who have lost family members to divorce, immigration, adoption, chronic mental illness, and brain injury. With its message of hope, this eloquent book offers guidance and understanding to those struggling to regain their lives. Table of Contents: 1. Frozen Grief 2. Leaving without Goodbye 3. Goodbye without Leaving 4. Mixed Emotions 5. Ups and Downs 6. The Family Gamble 7. The Turning Point 8. Making Sense out of Ambiguity 9. The Benefit of a Doubt Notes Acknowledgments Reviews of this book: You will find yourself thinking about the issues discussed in this book long after you put it down and perhaps wishing you had extra copies for friends and family members who might benefit from knowing that their sorrows are not unique...This book's value lies in its giving a name to a force many of us will confront--sadly, more than once--and providing personal stories based on 20 years of interviews and research. --Pamela Gerhardt, Washington Post Reviews of this book: A compassionate exploration of the effects of ambiguous loss and how those experiencing it handle this most devastating of losses ... Boss's approach is to encourage families to talk together, to reach a consensus about how to mourn that which has been lost and how to celebrate that which remains. Her simple stories of families doing just that contain lessons for all. Insightful, practical, and refreshingly free of psychobabble. --Kirkus Review Reviews of this book: Engagingly written and richly rewarding, this title presents what Boss has learned from many years of treating individuals and families suffering from uncertain or incomplete loss...The obvious depth of the author's understanding of sufferers of ambiguous loss and the facility with which she communicates that understanding make this a book to be recommended. --R. R. Cornellius, Choice Reviews of this book: Written for a wide readership, the concepts of ambiguous loss take immediate form through the many provocative examples and stories Boss includes, All readers will find stories with which they will relate...Sensitive, grounded and practical, this book should, in my estimation, be required reading for family practitioners. --Ted Bowman, Family Forum Reviews of this book: Dr. Boss describes [the] all-too-common phenomenon [of unresolved grief] as resulting from either of two circumstances: when the lost person is still physically present but emotionally absent or when the lost person is physically absent but still emotionally present. In addition to senility, physical presence but psychological absence may result, for example, when a person is suffering from a serious mental disorder like schizophrenia or depression or debilitating neurological damage from an accident or severe stroke, when a person abuses drugs or alcohol, when a child is autistic or when a spouse is a workaholic who is not really 'there' even when he or she is at home...Cases of physical absence with continuing psychological presence typically occur when a soldier is missing in action, when a child disappears and is not found, when a former lover or spouse is still very much missed, when a child 'loses' a parent to divorce or when people are separated from their loved ones by immigration...Professionals familiar with Dr. Boss's work emphasised that people suffering from ambiguous loss were not mentally ill, but were just stuck and needed help getting past the barrier or unresolved grief so that they could get on with their lives. --Asian Age Combining her talents as a compassionate family therapist and a creative researcher, Pauline Boss eloquently shows the many and complex ways that people can cope with the inevitable losses in contemporary family life. A wise book, and certain to become a classic. --Constance R. Ahrons, author of The Good Divorce A powerful and healing book. Families experiencing ambiguous loss will find strategies for seeing what aspects of their loved ones remain, and for understanding and grieving what they have lost. Pauline Boss offers us both insight and clarity. --Kathy Weingarten, Ph.D, The Family Institute of Cambridge, Harvard Medical School
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674028589
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
When a loved one dies we mourn our loss. We take comfort in the rituals that mark the passing, and we turn to those around us for support. But what happens when there is no closure, when a family member or a friend who may be still alive is lost to us nonetheless? How, for example, does the mother whose soldier son is missing in action, or the family of an Alzheimer's patient who is suffering from severe dementia, deal with the uncertainty surrounding this kind of loss? In this sensitive and lucid account, Pauline Boss explains that, all too often, those confronted with such ambiguous loss fluctuate between hope and hopelessness. Suffered too long, these emotions can deaden feeling and make it impossible for people to move on with their lives. Yet the central message of this book is that they can move on. Drawing on her research and clinical experience, Boss suggests strategies that can cushion the pain and help families come to terms with their grief. Her work features the heartening narratives of those who cope with ambiguous loss and manage to leave their sadness behind, including those who have lost family members to divorce, immigration, adoption, chronic mental illness, and brain injury. With its message of hope, this eloquent book offers guidance and understanding to those struggling to regain their lives. Table of Contents: 1. Frozen Grief 2. Leaving without Goodbye 3. Goodbye without Leaving 4. Mixed Emotions 5. Ups and Downs 6. The Family Gamble 7. The Turning Point 8. Making Sense out of Ambiguity 9. The Benefit of a Doubt Notes Acknowledgments Reviews of this book: You will find yourself thinking about the issues discussed in this book long after you put it down and perhaps wishing you had extra copies for friends and family members who might benefit from knowing that their sorrows are not unique...This book's value lies in its giving a name to a force many of us will confront--sadly, more than once--and providing personal stories based on 20 years of interviews and research. --Pamela Gerhardt, Washington Post Reviews of this book: A compassionate exploration of the effects of ambiguous loss and how those experiencing it handle this most devastating of losses ... Boss's approach is to encourage families to talk together, to reach a consensus about how to mourn that which has been lost and how to celebrate that which remains. Her simple stories of families doing just that contain lessons for all. Insightful, practical, and refreshingly free of psychobabble. --Kirkus Review Reviews of this book: Engagingly written and richly rewarding, this title presents what Boss has learned from many years of treating individuals and families suffering from uncertain or incomplete loss...The obvious depth of the author's understanding of sufferers of ambiguous loss and the facility with which she communicates that understanding make this a book to be recommended. --R. R. Cornellius, Choice Reviews of this book: Written for a wide readership, the concepts of ambiguous loss take immediate form through the many provocative examples and stories Boss includes, All readers will find stories with which they will relate...Sensitive, grounded and practical, this book should, in my estimation, be required reading for family practitioners. --Ted Bowman, Family Forum Reviews of this book: Dr. Boss describes [the] all-too-common phenomenon [of unresolved grief] as resulting from either of two circumstances: when the lost person is still physically present but emotionally absent or when the lost person is physically absent but still emotionally present. In addition to senility, physical presence but psychological absence may result, for example, when a person is suffering from a serious mental disorder like schizophrenia or depression or debilitating neurological damage from an accident or severe stroke, when a person abuses drugs or alcohol, when a child is autistic or when a spouse is a workaholic who is not really 'there' even when he or she is at home...Cases of physical absence with continuing psychological presence typically occur when a soldier is missing in action, when a child disappears and is not found, when a former lover or spouse is still very much missed, when a child 'loses' a parent to divorce or when people are separated from their loved ones by immigration...Professionals familiar with Dr. Boss's work emphasised that people suffering from ambiguous loss were not mentally ill, but were just stuck and needed help getting past the barrier or unresolved grief so that they could get on with their lives. --Asian Age Combining her talents as a compassionate family therapist and a creative researcher, Pauline Boss eloquently shows the many and complex ways that people can cope with the inevitable losses in contemporary family life. A wise book, and certain to become a classic. --Constance R. Ahrons, author of The Good Divorce A powerful and healing book. Families experiencing ambiguous loss will find strategies for seeing what aspects of their loved ones remain, and for understanding and grieving what they have lost. Pauline Boss offers us both insight and clarity. --Kathy Weingarten, Ph.D, The Family Institute of Cambridge, Harvard Medical School