Awakening from Grief: Finding the Road Back to Joy

AWAKENING FROM GRIEF is a treasure chest filled with heart-warming stories of growth, insightful, compassionate wisdom, and useful, inspirational help. It is a superb resource for those who are working to understand the confusing and difficult emotions surrounding loss. It will help the reader to develop a new perspective on loss . . . to recognize that rather than victimizing us, loss gives us the opportunity to develop a deeper experience of life, a deeper experience of love, and a profoundly expanded sense of happiness. It speaks directly to those who are dealing with the loss of a relationship, divorce, the death of a parent, the loss of a spouse, caring for an aging or sick relative, the loss of a child, alcoholic parents, and the illness or death of friends. It is a tremendous aid to those who are grieving, those who care for them, and those who wish to prepare for life's inevitable changes.

JOHN E. WELSHONS is a gifted counselor and teacher who for more than twenty-five years has been helping people to deal with dramatic life change and loss. His graduate work in "History of Religions" was done at Florida State University. He has worked extensively with Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, Mark Victor Hansen (co-creator, Chicken Soup for the Soul), and has studied with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. He is the Founder and President of Open Heart Seminars, and has a wide range of business and teaching experience. He is a frequent lecturer to businesses, churches, hospitals, hospices, colleges, and universities throughout the U.S.