Transcending Loss: Understanding the Lifelong Impact of Grief and How to Make It Meaningful

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Summary: Helpful and hopeful without being trite
Review: Along the lines of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People," this book can really helpful in allowing you work through your grief in a positive, healthy way.

I have experienced a great deal of loss in my life (parent, sister, husband) and -- at 34 years old -- am not one to swallow trite explanations like "everything happens for a reason." This book doesn't try to do that, but it does try to help you figure out how to go on with the rest of your life and find joy.

I would recommend it to anyone who is suffering a loss. It would make a very meaningful gift, as well.

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Summary: The Losses of Forbidden Women
Review: Along the lines of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People," this book can really helpful in allowing you work through your grief in a positive, healthy way.

I have experienced a great deal of loss in my life (parent, sister, husband) and -- at 34 years old -- am not one to swallow trite explanations like "everything happens for a reason." This book doesn't try to do that, but it does try to help you figure out how to go on with the rest of your life and find joy.

I would recommend it to anyone who is suffering a loss. It would make a very meaningful gift, as well.

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Summary: Keep coming back to it...
Review: As I move through the grieving experience in my life - as the years go by since the loss of my daughter - I find myself coming back to this book and rereading sections. It's a huge help.

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Summary: A beautifully written book about coping with loss
Review: Ashley Prend has written a sensitive and well organized book that is good for clinicians and those coping with loss. Her clear delineation of the stages of grief and the hope she holds out that one can get through the stuck places and make loss meaningful stand out. She writes well and the structure of the book makes it easy to read. The message that one does not need to "get over" one's loss is an important one as is her SOAR solution for integrating the loss in one's life so that one can "get on with" life.