Letting Go with Love - Softcover

O'Connor, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553281534 ISBN 13: 9780553281538

Publisher: Bantam, 1989

Synopsis

Letting Go With Love: The Grieving Process  is a gentle and informative guidebook that helps the bereaved through the darkness and emotional turmoil of losing a loved one. This book examines general stages and feelings of grief. It is the only book that has chapters on specific relationship losses like death of a spouse, a child, parents, siblings, friends, birth, as well as the dying process. It is an invaluable resource for the grieving person. The Revised Edition includes new chapters on Catastrophic Deaths and Caregiving. Endorsed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross this best-selling book has International acclaim. It is available as an eBook and a two CD set book read by the author. 105 minutes.
 

About this title

About the Author

Nancy O'Connor, Ph.D. is a retired Psychologist and nurse. She is the author of Letting Go With Love: The Grieving Process, How To Grow Up When You're Grown Up. How To Talk To Your Doctor, and Lottie's Lot. A book on the life of her Great grandparents and the seven children they raised. She has written a Musical called  IN THE YEAR 2323. 
 
Nancy O'Connor, Ph.D. was born in Detroit, Michigan. She worked in the field of nursing for 15 years. In 1971 she earned her B.S in Sociology followed by her M.S. (1973) and a Ph.D. (1975) in Developmental Psychology focusing on adult development and gerontology at the University of Oregon.
Dr. O'Connor has served on the faculties of the University of Oregon and the University of Arizona. She has been a clinical psychologist for community mental health programs and in private practice 23 years until her retirement in 1998.The last 12 years of her practice she was the Director of the Grief and Loss Center in Tucson, Arizona.
She has extensive experience as a seminar leader, workshop facilitator, teacher, trainer and lecturer. She has worked as a consultant to hospices, hospitals, schools, corporations, nursing homes, police departments and numerous private and public agencies both in the United States and abroad. She is the author of several articles and four books. Letting Go With Love: The Grieving Process is an international bestseller and has sold over 210,000 copies worldwide. How to Grow Up When You're Grown Up: Achieving Balance in Adulthood is holistic approach to adult development and How To Talk To Your Doctor is a lighthearted approach at improving communications between patients and doctors, encouraging patients to be more empowered and participate in their own health care.
Lottie's Lot is a novel based on the true life and events of her great grandmother Lottie Walker-Hastings. She has written the book and lyrics for a musical
In The Year 2323 and is looking for a place to produce it. She lives in Tucson Arizona.

From the Back Cover

Letting Go With Love: The Grieving Process Endorsements for inside book

You have done unbelievable GOOD for people. God bless you. You have changed so many people's lives with your book. Thank you for all you have done for my people and myself.
Teresita Tnajero, Direstor Instituto de Tanatology de Mexico
Mexico City, DF


Letting Go With Love: The Grieving Process . A counselor shares her experiences with bereavement and the stages the grief process in a reassuring self-help book that will be valuable to teenagers dealing with loss.

Booklist :American Library Association

This book makes for comforting reading. For someone who has never known the sadness and loneliness of death, it offers encouragement, advice, and hope in small palatable doses.
The Mail Tribune, Medford Oregon


Letting Go With Love offers a resource for those in the midst of grief; for those anticipating a death including their own, and for those emotionally hampered by unresolved grief that has lingered for many years.
Arizona Senior World

From the Inside Flap

Letting Go With Love:The Grieving Process is a gentle and informative guidebook that helps the bereaved through the darkness and emotional turmoil of losing a loved one. This book examines general stages and feelings of grief. This is the only book that has chapters on specific relationship losses like death of a spouse, a child, parents, siblings, friends, birth, as well as the dying process. An invaluable resource for the grieving person.
Endorsed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553281534
• ISBN 13: 9780553281538
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 10