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Author Elizabeth Gilbert: After Grief, I Was Ready for Sensuality

By Jane Wheatley — 2019

Elizabeth Gilbert's partner died in 2018 at the dawn of the new year. Fifteen months later she still loves to talk about her, invoking the name of her beloved at every opportunity. It's what grief compels us to do – to rehearse the disaster over and over, to tell stories, to keep the flame burning.

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The Geography of Sorrow

"But now we’re asked — and sometimes forced — to carry grief as a solitary burden. And the psyche knows we are not capable of handling grief in isolation." - Francis Weller

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Tim McKee, Francis Weller
2015
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Through a Glass Darkly: Miriam Greenspan on Moving from Grief to Gratitude

"Well, the Buddha taught that we increase our suffering through our attempts to avoid it." - Miriam Greenspan

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Barbara Platek, Miriam Greenspan
2008
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Just-Like-That Mind: A Great Zen Teacher on Navigating Loss and Grief

The mismatch between the knowledge and the longing is perhaps the most anguishing of all human experiences.

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Maria Popova
2016
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Dabda: The 5 Stages of Coping with Death

The five stages of coping with dying (DABDA), were first described by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her classic book, "On Death and Dying," in 1969.

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Angela Morrow
2020
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Initiation Dreams, Part II: Grief and the Underworld

Bereavement can have both healing and transformative potential, when worked with on a deeper level—especially in the realm of dreams and myth.

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Linda H. Mastrangelo
2016
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