Nourishing the Grieving Heart: Reflections and Paths for Healing - Hardcover

Jane Thompson; Holly Cashin

9780988953109: Nourishing the Grieving Heart: Reflections and Paths for Healing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0988953102 ISBN 13: 9780988953109

Publisher: Empath Press, LLC, 2013

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

A 2013 Midwest Book Awards First Place Winner!

Nourishing the Grieving Heart: Reflections and Paths for Healing provides the reader with an invitation to gently enter into their personal grief journey.

It is not a ''how to'' book nor does it suggest that there is a ''right way to grieve.'' It will speak to those at any point in the grieving process.

Through the poignant reflections and beautiful companion photographs, voice is given to the inner words and feelings experienced during a time of loss. It's content is timeless and, with reverence, the book becomes a ''compassionate witness'' to the grieving heart and paths toward healing.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

From the Inside Flap:

“This collection of beautiful photographs and reflections on grief is full of wisdom and understanding. It is a special gift for anyone who is grieving. This is a book that I will share with others” – Judy Tatelbaum, LCSW, author of The Courage to Grieve and You Don't Have to Suffer “Nourishing the Grieving Heart: Reflections and Paths for Healing provides those confronted with the challenges of grief a rich resource and companion. So many self-help books on this topic of grief are like academic lectures, this is worship!” - Rev. Catherine Crooks “As anyone who has ever grieved knows, healing is not a cerebral exercise. It is bigger, wider, deeper than that. While concepts and constructs can be very helpful in charting a roadmap for grief, this book goes beyond all that to embrace and guide the deeper healing experience of navigating the bumps and hardships along that road. It is on one hand practical and straightforward in its acknowledgement of common, private dilemmas in grief, while at the same time evocative of deeply personal emotional and spiritual healing practices that 'go beyond words.' Simple, honest, evocative, facilitative...and, somehow, touching, lovely, and loving.” – Sheryl Niebuhr, PhD, Licensed Psychologist

About the Author:

Jane Thompson, MSW began practicing psychotherapy after she completed her graduate studies at Saint Louis University in 1975. Her career has chiefly focused upon counseling the bereaved, while guiding individuals and families as they meet the challenges of chronic and life-threatening illnesses. She has accompanied clients as they moved through various life transitions and the losses they incur.

Throughout Jane's career, she has regarded her clients as teachers and collaborators in her own journey. She sincerely values the privilege of being allowed to be a compassionate presence in the journeys of others.

Besides her rich professional life in Minneapolis, she enjoys reading, Pilates, drawing and the company of those dear to her.

Holly Cashin is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and has worked professionally as a physical therapist for 25 years. Her role working with disabled children and adults has been immensely fulfilling and given her much insight into the grief experienced with the loss of physical abilities. She has raised three active and healthy boys that kept her on her toes for many years.

Holly is now retired from her work as a physical therapist and spends her leisure time traveling with her family, reading, gardening, and socializing.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.