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Paperback Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief Book

ISBN: 1614292965

ISBN13: 9781614292968

Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

If you love, you will grieve--and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human.

Dr. Cacciatore is featured in the 2021 documentary series The Me You Can't See, from Oprah, Prince Harry, and Apple TV.

Bearing the Unbearable is a Foreword INDIES Award-Winner -- Gold Medal for Self-Help.
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When a loved one dies, the pain of loss can feel unbearable--especially in the case of a traumatizing death that leaves us shouting, "NO " with every fiber of our body. The process of grieving can feel wild and nonlinear--and often lasts for much longer than other people, the nonbereaved, tell us it should.

Organized into fifty-two short chapters, Bearing the Unbearable is a companion for life's most difficult times, revealing how grief can open our hearts to connection, compassion, and the very essence of our shared humanity. Dr. Joanne Cacciatore--bereavement educator, researcher, Zen priest, and leading counselor in the field--accompanies us along the heartbreaking path of love, loss, and grief. Through moving stories of her encounters with grief over decades of supporting individuals, families, and communities--as well as her own experience with loss--Cacciatore opens a space to process, integrate, and deeply honor our grief.

Not just for the bereaved, Bearing the Unbearable will be required reading for grief counselors, therapists and social workers, clergy of all varieties, educators, academics, and medical professionals. Organized into fifty-two accessible and stand-alone chapters, this book is also perfect for being read aloud in support groups.

Now available as an online course from the Wisdom Academy and as a journal in Bearing the Unbearable: A Guided Journal for Grieving.

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Great book on grief

I lost my son two years ago at the age of 24. He suffered for several years before this and as a parent you suffer a lot of changing emotion after losing a child. I read courage to grieve and a Gary roe book on child loss and this book by far has them beat. It’s practical and understands the various stages of grief, not just the beginning phases. I would highly recommend it to anyone who has lost a child. It’s written by someone who has been through child loss in case that is important to you. It is to me.
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