Bly describes a process of grieving encapsulated in poignant dreams.
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Both parents and adult children often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century.
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Dr Lucy Hone is a resilience expert who thought she found her calling supporting people to recover following the Christchurch earthquake. She had no idea that her personal journey was about to take her to a far darker place.
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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"Well, the Buddha taught that we increase our suffering through our attempts to avoid it." - Miriam Greenspan
The mismatch between the knowledge and the longing is perhaps the most anguishing of all human experiences.
The death of your parent, at any age, is a huge loss. BBC Three spoke to eight people about their experience of bereavement at a young age, and how despite the horror, heartache and absence, there are things they’re still grateful for.
When former Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts’ husband, State Senator Frank Roberts, was dying from lung cancer, she had to look inside of herself as well as beyond herself to find ways to survive what felt unbearable.
Grief hits us all. Death, divorce, a broken childhood, a job loss, the loss of identity, or the loss of a dream can bring us each deep grief. This book reveals what we can do to work through the tasks of grief with resilience, coping, humor, and purpose.
Bereavement can have both healing and transformative potential, when worked with on a deeper level—especially in the realm of dreams and myth.