Surviving the death of a spouse/companion: Whether your loss was sudden or anticipated, your relationship brief or long-term, everyone's experience with grief is different. Recognizing and understanding the varied pathways of grief is crucial to your healing process. As the shock subsides and the healing begins, it is imperative for survivors to identify their emotions and reactions as well as the actions of those around them. The often-noted inability of friends, family and society to deal with death and dying is confusing and hurtful, and at times can interfere with the ability to assimilate your loss.
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Following the sudden death of her husband, Julie obtained a Master's in Social Work and began her career as a hospice grief counselor. Her work includes daily interaction with people who are in the process of losing their loved ones and with widows, through grief education and support groups.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
I started reading this wonderful little book and could hardly put it down! It is a stunning, beautifully-written, very compact book about the experience of losing a spouse. Julie Cicero starts by sharing the story of her personal loss as a way of highlighting some universal aspects of losing a beloved companion; but, she never fails to honor, with touching examples, the wide variety of ways that people experience and react to, similar losses. This is at once a smart, challenging and comforting book. Although I've not (yet) lost a companion, I'm finding that her book touched me on all sorts of levels -- as a physician; as a minister who has worked in a hospice and a foreign country where the dying are cared for in homes; as a companion who will, someday, either experience the loss of my spouse or the leaving-behind of my own death. Julie's personal and professional sharing will make that journey a bit less burdensome, for myself and many others.
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Cicero's book is heavy on the biography, and, as such, is ok. At a somewhat basic level, it would probably work for many people, especially young wives who are trying to make sense of a husband's sudden death. I would have wished for more substance on making sense of the loss and how to work through it (for example, C.S. Lewis's *A Grief Observed,* Charlie Walton's *When there Are No Words,* or Phyllis Kosminky's *Getting Back to Life When Grief Won't Heal*), as well as something more about her experience as a hospice bereavement counselor.
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Grief
by Jerry Fagnani
I write for those
Who dwell in sacred hush,
Kneeling on altars
Of their own exile;
Those who weep
For the wildness in a gentle heart,
And sing a song of longing
For sun dappled paths of light.
I sing for those
Flying further than any dream can reach,
Knowing that the rivers remember
As do the desecrated shadows in the dark;
Forlorn brothers, who,
With wings of ancient wrath,
Ride the raging storms of night
With a love that can't forget.
I walk with those
Who embrace their ravages,
And listen to the wind
For a message from the seasons;
Souls on a withered landscape
And its long, long season of silence;
Except for their hearts
Which gently moan.
A Kinder Bright: Poems of Praise and Remembrance
by Jerry Fagnani
I write for those
Who dwell in sacred hush,
Kneeling on altars
Of their own exile;
Those who weep
For the wildness in a gentle heart,
And sing a song of longing
For sun dappled paths of light.
I sing for those
Flying further than any dream can reach,
Knowing that the rivers remember
As do the desecrated shadows in the dark;
Forlorn brothers, who,
With wings of ancient wrath,
Ride the raging storms of night
With a love that can't forget.
I walk with those
Who embrace their ravages,
And listen to the wind
For a message from the seasons;
Souls on a withered landscape
And its long, long season of silence;
Except for their hearts
Which gently moan.
A Kinder Bright: Poems of Praise and Remembrance
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