The Healing Power of Love: Transcending the Loss of a Spouse to New Love is a collection of twelve beautifully and honestly told, uplifting and inspirational stories of new, loving relationships following the loss of a spouse or partner. Authors Lintermans and Stolzman recognize the life-affirming, vitally important, next step following mourning the loss of a spouse or partner. The often disquieting yet exhilaratingly overlap of grieving and finding new love can only unfold through a commitment to healthy grieving and the willingness to move forward.
20+ million step and blended families exist in the U.S. and 2,100 new ones form every day!
For most couples, trying to build a successful remarriage can mysteriously bring out their deepest personal fears, longings, and hopes. The key to not only survival, but living this journey well, begins with discovering opportunities to heal and to succeed; it is not about blame or badness. With the right preparation and resources, a multi-home step or blended family can be a stable and solid foundation for co-parents and children.
THE SECRETS TO STEPFAMILY SUCCESS offers tools that can significantly lower the alarming rate of step and blended family divorce, helping families evolve into highly nurturing, reliable refuges of warmth, safety, encouragement, strength, caring, and joy. Step and blended families have a unique dynamic with which couples must cope, along with all the other normal challenges of life and marriage. See how these families differ in up to sixty structural and dynamic ways from typical intact biological families--including consisting of two co-parenting homes and ex-spouses―and learn how to successfully recognize and manage these challenges.
The difference between step and blended families?http://glorialintermans.com/stepfamilies-introduction.htm
Gloria Lintermans welcomes sharing her hard-won knowledge of mourning the loss of a spouse and the in's and out's of grieving this loss while moving forward to a life of purpose, joy and a new, committed loving relationship in THE HEALING POWER OF GRIEF and THE HEALING POWER OF LOVE. She and her co-author, Marilyn Stolzman, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. will personally answer your questions via e-mail on these all important life-passages. What are your concerns? Your goals? Your challenges? Lintermans has chosen to share her experience of grief and recovery in The Healing Power of Grief: The Journey Through Loss to Life and Laughter.
Facing the loss of a spouse or life-partner is difficult because loving is all-encompassing; love took most of our emotional energy as we embraced our spouse or partner. We cared that they were fulfilled and well. We wanted to protect them and make them happy. We were devoted, so much so, that losing this loved one, felt crippling. And so, when they are gone, we need to learn how to transform this energy into something positive. Not a substitute, but a conversion, from a we to an I.
The Healing Power of Grief is Lintermans' story, twenty-four months of mourning and healing following the death of her precious husband, Rick. It is also Dr. Marilyn Stolzman's, a psychotherapist specializing in grief counseling, vision of healing as she offers tools, not psychobabble, a blueprint as it were, to help you to face your loss, mourn, and eventually, heal. This excellent resource also contains a WORKBOOK, providing the mourner (from a traditional and non-traditional relationships)with tools for getting in touch with and resolving feelings during their journey of mourning. ISBN 1-932783-48-2
The Healing Power of Love: Transcending the Loss of a Spouse to New Love by Gloria Lintermans and Marilyn Stolzman, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. is a collection of twelve beautifully and honestly told, uplifting and inspirational stories of new, loving relationships following the loss of a spouse or partner. Authors Lintermans and Stolzman recognize the life-affirming, vitally important, next step following mourning the loss of a spouse or partner. The often disquieting yet exhilaratingly overlap of grieving and finding new love can only unfold through a commitment to healthy grieving and the willingness to move forward.
Lintermans is a former syndicated newspaper columnist, and currently a freelance writer and author. She has also hosted her own cable television show and radio program. She is the author of The Newly Divorced Book of Protocol (Barricade Books), and Retro Chic (Really Great Books. Dr. Stolzman brings her wisdom and hands-on experience to the book by way of her professional training and work as a bereavement counselor through her directorship of the H.O.P.E Unit Foundation for Bereavement, Loss and Transitionion, a non-profit organization.
