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| Writer | Joanne Cacciatore |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wisdom Publications |
| Publish Date | 2017 |
| Pages | 218 |
| File Size | 2 MB |
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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.
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.
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.
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