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| Writer | Joanne Cacciatore |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wisdom Publications |
| Publish Date | 2017 |
| Pages | 218 |
| File Size | 2 MB |
| File Type |
We live in a precarious world in which loss and grief assail us at a seemingly ever-quickening pace. In Bearing the Unbearable, Dr. Cacciatore, an associate professor at Arizona State University, an expert in traumatic loss and grief, a Zen priest, and herself a bereaved mother, shows us a healthier path.
Bearing the Unbearable PDF – Joanne Cacciatore
Drawing on more than two decades of clinical experience, research findings, the wisdom of Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, and Native American sages, and Western psychology, Dr. Cacciatore illuminates the emotional impact of grief and the psychological, relational, and spiritual elements of healing and transformation. Bearing the Unbearable PDF
In poignant chapters on such topics as the cost of unrealized and unprocessed grief and trauma, transgenerational grief, guilt and shame, the relationship of loss and love, the practice of being with grief, and the value of rituals and micro-rituals, she clarifies not only the strategies individuals and the medical and psychiatric establishment use to deny, suppress, and anesthetize grief and mourning, but also the pathway to healing.
Bearing the Unbearable offers a compelling critique of our “compassion-deficient” and happiness-addicted culture that creates a pathological relationship to our feelings in general and grief in particular. Dr. Cacciatore elucidates the cost of pathologizing grief and neglecting and invalidating the emotional experience of people who have suffered horrendous loss — the way such approaches make the grief-stricken doubt themselves and feel alienated and isolated — all of which precludes healing.
Bearing the Unbearable PDF – Joanne Cacciatore
This book makes a plea for therapeutic approaches to trauma and grief that unflinchingly respect the full spectrum of feelings that human beings experience, thus providing an emotional home for our agony. Drawing on touching and sometimes heart-wrenching stories from her practice and her life, Dr. Joanne Cacciatore — lovingly known to tens of thousands of grief-stricken people she has worked with on six continents as “Jojo” — demonstrates what is necessary to facilitate healing. Bearing the Unbearable PDF
With searing honesty, inspiring courage, and exemplary empathy, Dr. Cacciatore greets the agony of her clients with patience and compassion and an intrepid spirit of curiosity and patience. And readers may feel themselves subtly transformed.
Bearing the Unbearable not only offers tales of remarkable healing; it is also an astonishing testament to the mysterious and transformational power of grief that is met with compassion to grow our hearts, expand our circle of compassion, and generate lives of greater meaning.
Bearing the Unbearable PDF – Joanne Cacciatore
The traumatized live in a different psychological universe than the untraumatized. Ripped open by loss and grief, the former can also awake from the consensual trance of everyday life. Dr. Cacciatore elucidates two ways this can be transformative — heightened gratitude and what she calls “fierce compassion.” Bearing the Unbearable PDF
“No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night,” the late Elie Wiesel recognized. In Dr. Cacciatore’s book, we are exposed to people who suffered traumatic grief and then taught about expanded gratitude and service to others.
“Fierce compassion,” which arises from fully experienced grief, helps us awake from our slumber and live more wholeheartedly. It helps us take more responsibility for reaching beyond ourselves and toward other people and the suffering that is haunting them. Dr. Cacciatore believes that it is a force that can heal the world.
Bearing the Unbearable PDF
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