Grief is alive in us more and more, here on Earth these days. We all feel alone, shocked, confused, and heartbroken by the losses we have experienced in recent times. Opening to Grief is a gentle guide to the learnings in this experience. Like a loving friend, the authors move past the prevailing idea that grief moves in stages.
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"You could think of grief as a sacred passage. You are torn from the life you knew before. You are not who you were, and you are not yet who you will become. Like everything else, you are changing. You are, in a very real way, between identities. This experience—profoundly different for each of us—is confusing, agonizing, and potentially life-transforming."
Grief is alive in us more and more, here on Earth these days. We all feel alone, shocked, confused, and heartbroken by the losses we have experienced in recent times. This discussion will offer resources for building resilience and holding grief, so that we are able to connect more deeply to ourselves and to one another and to find meaning in the midst of loss.
~ Joan Halifax
“As clear as a needed glass of water in the desert. I cannot think of a better companion for our current time.”
~ Katy Butler
Claire Willis is a clinical social worker and lay Buddhist chaplain who has worked in the fields of oncology and bereavement for over 20 years where she offers therapeutic writing and support groups. The co-founder of Facing Cancer Together, a non-profit offering a variety of support and educational services to those living with cancer, Claire is the author of Lasting Words: A Guide to Finding Meaning Toward the Close of Life and co-author with Marnie Crawford Samuelson of Opening to Grief. openingtogrief.com
Opening to Grief
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It's OK That You're Not OK
In 2009, on a beautiful sunny day, Megan Devine witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner Matt. “All my professional experience as a therapist felt meaningless,” she writes. “Grief literature is loaded with well-intended advice that can actually worsen and extend someone’s pain.
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Art of Dying Well
A common sense path to define what a good death looks like, The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change.
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Heart As Wide As The World
Sharon Salzberg, cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, knows from experience that the Buddhist teachings have the power to transform our lives for the better. And she has some very good news: all the material for bringing about this transformation is to be found in the ordinary events of our everyday experiences.
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Being with Dying
Denial of death runs rampant through our culture, leaving us woefully unprepared when it is our time to die, or our time to help others die. We often aren’t available for those who need us, paralyzed as we are by anxiety and resistance—nor are we available for ourselves.
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