Life After Loss: Conquering Grief and Finding Hope - Softcover

Raymond Moody; Dianne Arcangel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062517309 ISBN 13: 9780062517302

Publisher: HarperOne, 2002

Synopsis

A unique approach to understanding and overcoming grief.

Bestselling author Raymond Moody and his colleague Dianne Arcangel show how the grieving process can transform our fear and grief into spiritual and emotional growth.

About this title

About the Author:

Raymond A. Moody Jr., Ph.D., M.D., is a world-renowned scholar, lecturer, and researcher, and he is widely recognized as the leading authority on near-death experiences. He is the bestselling author of many books, including Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife.

Dianne Arcangel, M.S., is the former director of the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Center of Houston. She is also a former hospice chaplain and currently works as a grief workshop facilitator.

From Publishers Weekly:

Author of the seminal 1975 Life After Life and renowned expert on near-death experiences, Moody teams up with grief counselor Arcangel to provide a comprehensive and compassionate manual for the bereaved. Personal stories illustrate the short- and long-term effects of the death of a loved one, an event considered life's most stressful. With a clear and empathetic understanding of grief, Moody and Arcangel move beyond Kobler-Ross's stages of mourning to explore the variations in individual experience as influenced by such specific factors as the bereaved's personality and the circumstances surrounding the death, as well as more general factors, like cultural pressure. Arguing that "Grief is not an emotion but a process with a host of emotions," and that "each person is the expert for his or her grief alone," the authors emphasize the fallacy of assigning set timetables and linear phases to grieving. Offering plenty of helpful advice how to cope with stress, how to get sympathy, etc. Moody and Arcangel gently guide mourners through the four tasks of healthy grief (and here their debt to Kobler-Ross is clear): accepting the reality of the loss, working through the emotional pain, adjusting to the changed environment and moving forward. Going beyond loss can lead to "a spiritual rebirth" through increased appreciation, humility, tolerance, passion, clarity, sensitivity, spirituality and love. (Dec.)Forecast: On September 11, the audience for this work grew by the thousands. As of this writing, an author tour to selected cities (though none on the East Coast) is planned for January.

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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0062517309
• ISBN 13: 9780062517302
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240