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All Seasons Pass: Grieving a Miscarriage

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Grieving a miscarriage is such a different experience for any 2 women. I have miscarried 4 times and have remained childless. The devestation was subtle for me but nonetheless traumatic. Manning was able to offer insight and spirituality where I couldn't find any. It is not a "how to" book but more of a sharing; a common bond that touches so many women. This is the type of book that you buy, read and put on the shelf but pull it down the minute you hear of a friend's miscarriage. I have lent my copy out 3 times and each time it has come back, the readers have been grateful and truly touched by Manning's words. There is no right or wrong way to grieve but Manning showed that a miscarriage does indeed need to be grieved and not minimized as so many people did to me. I love this book and recommend it to any woman -

When purchasing this book I was expecting to find a book that whould help with the grief associated with miscarriage. The author tells her own personal story and then talks about grief and some of the reactions a person might expect to encounter from family and friends. She compares the grief to a stormy beach season, and how the beach recovers and remains for many years after the devasting season. It is a very brief book, and really does not provide much information that I have not encountered in more helpful books such as Miscarriage: Woman Sharing from Their Hearts by Allen and Marks.I do not recommend this book to women who have gone through years of infertility only to miscarry their first and only child. or to any one who has lost their only child. The author deals with her own experience which were subsequent miscarriages 7 years after the birth of her first child, which is still living. I have found that the grief experienced by women who already have a living child is quite different from that of women who do not have any living children. Those of us struggling for a first child still have not arrived at a point in which the season will pass, nor can we even begin to see the lighthouse on the horizon to guide us free from the storms of grief that plague us. The book was so insubstantial and did not provide much helpful information at all, seek out the book recommended above instead.

While this book had some nice passages, it was just too short. It felt more like a first chapter, or an outline for the real book to come. It seemed overpriced, and overbilled for the actual thing.

I'm happy to hear that the book has brought comfort to some--but I was disapointed by it. I recommend another book "Silent Sorrow" to mothers who carry sorrow instead of the babies they expected to hold. Peace to all who grieve.

A touching story about this woman's experience written with grace and poignancy. Martha Manning has a writing style that blends the heart with the feet. In her walk at the beach I could feel her gritty grounding and her emotional transcendence.

I recommend this book for not only those men and women struggling to find meaning in the tragedy of a miscarriage, but for anyone who is interested in the journey of the heart and spirit.

Kudos, Manning.