Crossing the Bridge of Desolation: the Bereavement Journey

The death of a loved one and the bereavement it brings eventually touches us all. Every man, woman and child has a stake in learning how to deal with it. This book will give you just that. It is a work that is deep yet readable, clinical yet poetic in character. At its worst, bereavement is an experience of utter desolation! To survive it we must cross an ocean of chaos with only a rickety bridge, a bridge of desolation, to get us over. We have little hope of surviving the passage. Yet survive it we can! This self-help book, written by a clinician who has spent his career working with the bereaved, is a map of how to find our way through the desolation. It is a source book to help you understand what this bereavement is you are dealing with. It is a creatively envisioned book encompassing both the psychology and spirituality of loss, taking you down into the substrate of grief so that you really can see what it's about and how it may be managed. Perhaps most important of all, you will come to understand how bereavement can yield personal growth and - despite all that has happened - a greater sense of your deceased loved one's spiritual well-being, an awareness of the eternal nature of your relationship. That is no small gain! If you can but hold steady and keep going, healing will come to you beyond anything you thought possible.