When grief is the form your love takes, where do you turn? Do you escape, or enter, the loneliness, the emptiness, the pain? How much, how slowly, how fast? It's a blessing when someone can help you feel your own way through what only your heart can process. That blessing is what Paul Bennett somehow manages to pass along with Loving Grief-shining a new light into the fundamental nature of grief.
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Paul Bennett's quiet and carefully managed life took an unpredictable turn when Bonnie Bunting, his wife of 18 years, was diagnosed with a rare and dangerous form of melanoma. Two years later, in December of 2002, she died.
Loving Grief grew from Paul's conversations with friends and with a grief counselor, and from the journal in which he explored the bewildering experience of grief. Deeply immersed in his loss, inventing rituals to remember Bonnie and to celebrate her, Paul also reflected on the path of diminishing hope that brought them to Bonnie's final days of life and her decision to accept her own death. Loving Grief is at once a memoir and a probing inquiry into the lessons that grief can teach us about love, with each chapter rouned out by a piece of poetry that expresses what narrative and discourse cannot.
After 35 years writing about public issues, the environment, health care and education, Paul Bennett has stepped through the door of grief into a new life; the lessons of grief that he explores in Loving Grief have led him to dedicate himself to writing from the heart, and with his wife, Carol Herndon, to leading other couples in experiences that expand their freedom to grow in love and fulfillment.
Loving Grief grew from Paul's conversations with friends and with a grief counselor, and from the journal in which he explored the bewildering experience of grief. Deeply immersed in his loss, inventing rituals to remember Bonnie and to celebrate her, Paul also reflected on the path of diminishing hope that brought them to Bonnie's final days of life and her decision to accept her own death. Loving Grief is at once a memoir and a probing inquiry into the lessons that grief can teach us about love, with each chapter rouned out by a piece of poetry that expresses what narrative and discourse cannot.
After 35 years writing about public issues, the environment, health care and education, Paul Bennett has stepped through the door of grief into a new life; the lessons of grief that he explores in Loving Grief have led him to dedicate himself to writing from the heart, and with his wife, Carol Herndon, to leading other couples in experiences that expand their freedom to grow in love and fulfillment.
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Helps one to fully feel, then move through, a loss.,
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Not a "self-help" book--and better because of it. Just a beautifully transparent look at one man's struggle with the loss of his wife, and the search for how to integrate that reality into his life. Also a widowed man, I found myself deeply engaged in this book. It gave me comfort--normalized my grieving in a way that surprised me.
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help after death of spouse,
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Having recently lost my husband, I found this the most helpful book on how to manage the pain while moving to gratitude of loving memories
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This book brought tears to my eyes. Loving Grief is well written from the perspective of a care giver and spouse. The insights help friends / family understand the sorrow, journey forward and another meaning for life after death.
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