This
unusual self-help book about surviving grief offers the reader
comfort and inspiration. Each of us will face some loss, sorrow
and disappointment in our lives, and The Courage to Grieve provides
the specific help we need to enable us to face our grief fully
and to recover and grow from the experience. Although the book
emphasizes the response to the death of a loved one, The Courage
to Grieve can help with every kind of loss and grief.
Judy Tatelbaum gives us a fresh look at understanding grief, showing
us that grief is a natural, inevitable human experience, including
all the unexpected, intense and uncomfortable emotions like sorrow,
guilt, loneliness, resentment, confusion, or even the temporary
loss of the will to live. The emphasis is to clarify and offer
help, and the tone is spiritual, optimistic, creative and easy
to understand. Judy Tatelbaum provides excellent advice on how
to help oneself and others get through the immediate experience
of death and the grief that follows, as well as how to understand
the special grief of children. Particularly useful are the techniques
for completing or "finishing" grief--counteracting the
popular misconception that grief never ends. The Courage to Grieve
shows us how to live life with the ultimate courage: not fearing
death. This book is about so much more than death and grieving'it
is about life and joy and growth.
About
the Author:
Judy Tatelbaum, M.S.W., attended both Syracuse University and
the Simmons College School of Social Work in Boston. She worked
for several years as a psychiatric social worker at the Payne
Whitney Clinic of New York/Cornell Medical Center; the Columbia
University School of Social Work; and the Massachusetts Mental
Health Center. She now lives in Carmel Valley, California, where
she has her private practice.
Elisabeth
Kubler-Ross, M.D.:
An excellent and tactical, valid book on all the aspects of
grief and grief resolution, including important ideas about self-help
and avenues to finish unfinished business and teach people how
to let go. It is a well-done book written with wisdom and love,
and makes people aware that every ending is also a new beginning.
