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A Beautiful Mourning by [Elizabeth A. Weber]

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Travel along on one woman's transformative journey into and, perhaps more importantly, out of the deep heart of mourning.

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April 30, 2010
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B079335Y5N
Publisher ‏ : ‎ iUniverse (April 30, 2010)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 30, 2010
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 348 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 152 pages

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Elizabeth Weber is the author of "A Beautiful Mourning." She holds a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Lesley University, is an Attitudinal Healing Facilitator, and a Seasons of Change Coach. Her writing has been published in numerous journals and she is a contributing author to the Friends Along the Road Anthology "Living with Grief."

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Josephine

Deeply Comforting

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 12, 2010

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One year after the death of my own husband, who was also older, I moved into the pages of this book not knowing what to expect. I still couldn't focus on all of the things I had to do, both to deal with his unfinished business and to move forward with my own. Shouldn't I have healed by now? How long was this grief process going to take?

What I found in these pages was surprising reassurance that grief proceeds in its own time. I would be wise not to force it. If I try too hard to make it happen, I may find myself heading in directions that don't work.

This author is brutally honest with herself and with her own experience of trying to move forward through grief. I have emerged from her story with a deeper and most unexpected sense of peace, calm, and above all, patience with myself. This is exactly what I've needed, and I am grateful for that.

I read a borrowed copy of this book, but I want to read it again, so I have ordered my own copy. I suspect that a second reading will yield healing on even deeper levels. This story is a gentle gift of hope to anyone who has experienced loss.

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A must read!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 23, 2015

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As a bereavement counselor and hospice nurse, I have been recommending this wonderful book to all my grieving clients.

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Elizabeth Weber's A Beautiful Mourning is the first book on bereavement that did ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 10, 2014

Elizabeth Weber's A Beautiful Mourning is the first book on bereavement that did not cause me turmoil as I turned the pages. It is also an inspirational and literary delight.

People who are not in grief tend to avoid books on bereavement and carry on as if they do not exist. Those who are in grief know of these books but can feel challenged by them. I know I do. Each time I start a text or manual on grief, or begin someone's odyssey through mourning, I feel burdened by the expectation of temporarily suspending my own views so that I may impartially asses the material at hand.

There was no such burden for me with A Beautiful Mourning. From the moment I read the first paragraph my attention flowed effortlessly, bouyed by the author's natural, graceful, unassuming approach. The story of Elizabeth's life with her husband Bob, Bob's death, and Elizabeth's journey into mourning, is so genuine that it carried me swiftly from chapter to chapter. Then, just for fun, I read it again.

When Elizabeth's grief coach offers her an opportunity to explore her grief with an approach called "Seasons of Grief," developed by Carol McLelland, Ph.D., she immediately invests it with her own spirit by being present and paying careful attention to her inner and outer environments. As Thoreau decided to live deliberately in the woods, Elizabeth, a naturalist of the soul, takes her cues from life itself.

Elizabeth begins in winter:

"I will honor my need to stay in bed. I will honor my need to stop and to mourn, and I will do it with full consciousness."

As she wraps the blanket of sorrow around her she descends into an abyss and wonders, "...How far will I go?"

In March she grieves wholeheartedly, crying as often as she wishes, "marching to the drumbeat" of her own grief. With spring she finds that she doesn't have to try to feel better - the eruption of nature does it for her. She feels a surge of life in her veins.

Toward the end of May, Elizabeth becomes restless. "Now I realize that equally as important as diving into mourning is coming out of it." Following her internal guidance system she decides it is time to start a new chapter in her life, and moves to the mountains. Things fall into place. She finds a room in the house of a charming young couple, makes friends, and eventually finds the right house to purchase.

During summer she begins taking walks to a pond, where she observes life in all its buzzing beauty, and conceives of an imaginary book with a whimsical title: Everything I Ever Needed to Learn I Learned from My Pond. She also begins arising earlier, takes up yoga, and starts unlearning old habits.

In the fall Elizabeth realizes she hasn't cried for months. The holidays are approaching and she is filled with festive spirit; she is reluctant to return to deep suffering.

Interspersed with the seasonal observations, and consequent changes in her emotions and insight, are memories of her life with Bob. Several small stories convey just what a wonderful man Bob was, and what a fine husband. Their days living in Hawaii are idyllic. Bob's generous spirit, and good humor are evident in the story of how, near death, he ordered a kind of miracle vacuum cleaner for Elizabeth. There are also episodes of sorrow, crisis, and awakening. Elizabeth passes through a health difficulty, a relocation possibility of false promise, and a terrifying plane ride. Throughout all this her grief flows, ebbs, and resurges.

A series of vignettes gives a glimpse of Elizabeth's own humor and personability. Following a rock-throwing incident, she begins taking an active part in the lives of two neighborhood children, which results in sessions of weed-picking and trash-gathering, trips to the movies, and Elizabeth's awe at the spontaneous joy of a young boy who bursts into dance at every occasion.

At the end of the book Elizabeth takes part in a special ceremony. She writes that "Both ancient wisdom traditions and the study of nature contain the know-how to help us 'navigate through life's ups and downs.'" She now sees beauty everywhere, but notes that

"Something unexpected will trigger me and the floodgates will open wide. I cycle back into grief and I go through the whole process again and again. The excursions back into deep sorrow do not discourage me. I view them as sacred journeys...."

In this way she does not relegate her grief over Bob's death to some past that has been "overcome," but acknowledges that, with her new-found appreciation for life, she has come to recognize the ever-changing ways in which we remember and honor our loved ones. She also give us the inspiration to make our own journeys into the nature of grief, and learning in our individual ways to live with it.

A Beautiful Mourning is a beautiful book filled with observations of nature's renewal, life's surprising and sometimes mysterious vicissitudes, and the many unique ways in which human beings can dance with difficult or changing circumstances. The book is also seasoned with elegant and pertinent quotes from the likes of Rumi, Meister Eckhart, and Carol Hannaford.

I'm hoping that Elizabeth will keep writing books because she has the talent of combining penetrating insight, entertainment, and literary ability that is rarely found in even the best bereavement literature. More importantly, she is life-affirming in a way that makes me want to live naturally, yet deliberately.

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Surapsari

Authentic Grief Guidance

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 20, 2016

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is coping with the loss of a loved one, especially spouse. I received this book as a surprise gift from my dear friend two weeks after my beloved husband's passing away. Although I understood that his death was part of the natural life cycle, intensity of my pain and sense of loss was beyond what I expected. I tried grief counseling, but I quickly realized it was not really for me. What I needed was to stay in silence, go deep into my pain and explore my emotions, with guidance from someone who has lead this path before me; a person who was brave to go through the journey of dark night and came out with much wisdom, power, and love. Elizabeth Weber was such a person. Her book, “A Beautiful Mourning” shed light on the path that I was about to take. I read the book every day for one week, until I memorized most of the lines. The book gave me a confirmation to the mourning approach that I strongly felt right for me. Through her book, Elizabeth played a role of a trusted companion in the early part of my grieving process. She assured me that spring would come, when I felt density and coldness of winter would never left.

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frank

Grieveing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 23, 2015

Grieving strikes a deep chord in the human nature , the worlds cultures relate to it in many different ways Elsa lays out a conscious way of dealing with a very painful period of our lives . In my own life for the past few years it has been dealing with grief over a no. of pets, from a band of gold fish to a couple of cats who lived with us for about eight years, But what helped us was using the" Tibetan Book of the Dead "as a guide, those not familiar with the book - It keeps up a communication with the deceased with prayer and dialogue for some forty five days . I don't know if it has ever been used for cats before or if our cats obtained a higher rebirth but it certainly helped my partner and I through the process. Elsa helps us see many other processes of our nature as when she is flying through a turbulent storm the hell she is going through then walking from the plane when it landed she hears a small boy ask his mother " Mom can we do it again" The book is a good read.

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