Grief Is a Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss

Grief Is a Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Kenneth Doka explores a new, compassionate way to grieve, explaining that grief is not an illness to get over but an individual and ongoing journey.

There is no â€œone-size-fits-allâ€ way to cope with loss. The vital bonds that we form with those we love in life continue long after deathâ€”in very different ways. Grief Is a Journey is the first book to overturn the prevailing, often judgmental, ideas about grief, and replace them with a hopeful, inclusive, personalized, and research-backed approach. New science and studies behind Dr. Dokaâ€™s teaching upend the dominant but incorrect view that grief proceeds by stages.

In doing so, he helps us realize that our experiences following a death are far more individual and much less predictable than the conventional â€œfive stagesâ€ model would have us believe. Common patterns of experiencing and expressing grief still prevail, yet many other life changes accompany a primary loss. For example, the deaths of parents, even for adults, modify family patterns, change relationships, and alter old family rituals.

Unique to this book, Dr. Doka also explains how to cope with disenfranchised griefâ€”the types of loss that are not so readily recognized or supported by society. These include the death of ex-spouses, as well as non-fatal losses such as divorce, the end of a friendship, job loss, or infertility. In addition, Dr. Doka considers losses that might be stigmatized, including death by suicide or from disease or self-destructive behaviors such as smoking or alcoholism.

Since no two people experience grief in the exact same way, Grief Is a Journey offers a variety of self-help strategies for coping with grief. It delineates the many ways we can create personal and private therapeutic rituals throughout our grief journey. This book also offers counsel on whenâ€”and whereâ€”to seek professional assistance. And finally, Dr. Doka reminds us that, however painful, grief provides opportunities for growth.
Country USA
Brand Atria Books
Manufacturer Atria Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-04-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476771489

Country	USA
Brand	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-04-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476771489

Grief Is a Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss

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