Understanding and Coping with Grief

De: Joanne Cacciatore, The Great Courses

Narrado por: Joanne Cacciatore

Grief remains one of the great mysteries that each of us will face one day. Even when grief is expected, it can be overwhelmingly paralyzing in its power. Coping with the day-to-day pain of loss can seem impossible. And everyone copes with grief differently—there is no right way, timeline, or process guaranteed to make someone feel better, so it’s difficult to understand in others—and sometimes even in yourself.

Over the course of 10 lectures, Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, a research professor at Arizona State University and founder of the MISS Foundation, explores the nuances of grief and grieving, particularly within our often grief-avoidant culture.

Dr. Cacciatore has been counseling grieving families and researching traumatic grief for more than two decades. She also has firsthand experience with this subject, as a mother of five children: four who walk and one who soars. Through this eye-opening series, she provides a sensitive and empathic approach to the subject, with emotional, physical, social, cognitive, and spiritual insights that can help make sense of this complicated and overwhelming emotion. Additionally, she offers several tools and exercises to help you practice healthy coping mechanisms, enabling you to face and embrace the grieving process.

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excellent primer or review on grief

as a holistic health and wellness coach, this lecture series was wonderful review. great for the newbie to grief or those retouching it or wishing to better assist others in their grief.

Helpful and Allowing

I appreciate this book so much. My takeaway was to allow grief. Because it’s an uncomfortable and hard place to be and empathize with many of us say platitudes in the effort to get out of that uncomfortable place. My takeaway was to get comfortable in the uncomfortable. Life is beautiful and precious because of the multiple colors and emotions. I’m learning to embrace all emotions and sit in them even when it doesn’t feel good. It’s honoring to sit with someone in their pain and say “I’m here, you’re not alone”.

Grief can't be your friend.

This book is a loving and touching explanation of grief and the process of bereavement. It should be read by anyone who has experienced loss of anything that was once loved, cherished and cared for, human or not.

Good book

I found the book very informative and inspiring. I think many of the provided techniques can be helpful.

Amazing

Thank you Audible and Joanne Cacciatore for producing and writing this. It was profound, moving, and a wonderful guide to dealing in a healthy way to grief, pain, trauma, and helping others.
I encourage everyone to listen to this, especially if you are suffering a loss of any kind. God bless :)