Solace: Finding Your Way Through Grief and Learning to Live Again - Softcover

Roberta Temes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081441463X ISBN 13: 9780814414637

Publisher: Amacom Books, 2009

Synopsis

There is no more stressful and traumatic experience than coping with the death of a loved one. There are various stages of grief and loss, which often take months or even years for many people to overcome. But with the right guidance, readers can learn to lessen the pain and live happy lives. "Solace" provides soothing comfort and hope for those who are suffering. As an award-winning bereavement expert, Roberta Temes believe all of us experience and process grief in our own way. Here she helps readers through the stages of grief, tells them when they should worry, helps them consider the pros and cons of bereavement groups and counselors, and shows them how to use visualization to help the healing process. Featuring anecdotes drawn from her bereavement practice so readers may learn from the experiences of others who have also gone through and struggled with loss, "Solace" is also filled with comforting affirmations, quotations and words of encouragement. Dealing with loss is never easy

About this title

About the Author

Roberta Temes, Ph.D. (Westfield, NJ) is a noted psychologist who has taught classes in death, dying and bereavement at schools such as Downstate Medical School, CUNY, and University of Pennsylvania Continuing Education for Physicians. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning Living with an Empty Chair: A Guide Through Grief.

From the Back Cover

How do you grieve the loss of a loved one? Is it best to seek the comfort of others or go it alone? Stay stoically strong or let it out? Does it take weeks, months, years? Actually, says Dr. Roberta Temes, we all experience and process grief in our own unique way.

No one can tell you exactly how you’ll feel or what to do, but with Solace as your guide, you’ll understand the stages of your grief and your changing and sometimes conflicting emotions. Dr. Temes will help you consider the pros and cons of bereavement groups, counselors, and other sources of help, and how to use visualization and other techniques to ease your mind and heart—even on your worst days.

Enriched with personal stories drawn from the author’s bereavement practice, Solace also provides inspiring quotes and affirmations to lift you through each day—until the healing process takes hold and you begin once again to find purpose and joy in life.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR SOLACE. . .

“Solace normalizes the grieving process and helps readers to understand and accept, rather than fear, what they are experiencing after the death of a loved one. Dr. Temes provides sound psychological information in a soothing and helpful manner that eases the mourn­ing period and promises the light at the end of the tunnel for the reader. I highly recommend Solace to anyone who has just suffered a loss.” — Dorothy W. Cantor, Psy.D., former President, American Psychological Association

“Solace offers hope for recovery. Dr. Temes writes with such warmth, kindness, and comfort. You will not only embrace [her] advice, you will also love hearing the voices of many men and women who have experienced a significant loss. Dr. Temes talks to you like a good friend, so you will not feel alone when Solace is beside you.” — Ingrid Schweiger (DrIngrid.com), psychologist

“Finally, a book I can wholeheartedly recommend to patients who have lost a loved one. Solace gives compassionate and practical advice to the bereaved as well as specific actions to help cope with loss.” — Laurence Jay Deutsch, MD

“[a] must-read for the bereaved. . . . Written with Dr. Temes’s characteristic compassion, Solace takes the reader through the entire bereavement process in vivid detail. I will hand this book to my patients.” — Renee Garfinkel, clinical psychologist

Roberta Temes, Ph.D., is a noted psychotherapist who has taught classes in death, dying, and bereavement at schools such as Downstate Medical School and CUNY. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning Living with an Empty Chair: A Guide Through Grief and The Tapping Cure. She lives in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081441463X
• ISBN 13: 9780814414637
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146