Resilient Grieving

Finding Strength and Embracing Life After a Loss That Changes Everything

By: Lucy Hone PhD, Karen Reivich PhD - foreword

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

The death of someone we hold dear may be inevitable; being paralyzed by our grief is not. A growing body of research has revealed our capacity for resilient grieving, our innate ability to respond to traumatic loss by finding ways to grow - by becoming more engaged with our lives, and discovering new, profound meaning.

Author and resilience/well-being expert Lucy Hone, a pioneer in fusing positive psychology and bereavement research, was faced with her own inescapable sorrow when, in 2014, her 12-year-old daughter was killed in a car accident. By following the strategies of resilient grieving, she found a proactive way to move through her grief, and, over time, embrace life again.

Resilient Grieving offers an empowering alternative to the five-stage Kübler-Ross model of grief - and makes clear our inherent capacity for growth following the trauma of a loss that changes everything.

©2017 Lucy Hone; foreword copyright 2017 by Karen Reivich (P)2017 Tantor

More helpful than I ever imagined!

After my mother’s death, it was as if the rug was pulled out from under me. I felt like I was floundering with no direction in sight. “Resilient Grieving” not only should me how to play an active role in my grieving process, it also confirmed that everything is been feeling & doing were within the normal realm of the process. I actually plan to listen it again, because Lucy Hone’s words have provided me with so much encouragement and hope for the future.

Current and useful

In a time when people are overwhelmed with grief this book was extremely helpful. I am a therapist and found this material to be accessible, practical, compassionate and current. I will use its content for my next seminar. Thanks you!

One of the Best Books on Grief

Lucy gives listeners a clear and vulnerable window into her own grieving while sharing valuable tools gained from her research and study. I am grateful and healthier for having purchased this book. I also extend my deep gratitude to Karen Reivich and her team at Penn. Finally, I applaud Coleen Marlo’s performance.

grief

excellent I am 79 years old I am a recovering alcoholic I have 39 years in AA.
I have been doing grief work for a long time. Than you for your excellent book.
Hazel Chapman

It is different…but stick with it! It is worth it.

I found this book hard to stick with at times. Especially in the early chapters. Not because it wasn’t well written, well researched, nor because the author was not competent in the subject. I actually think it may have been because she is MORE THAN COMPETENT! She too has suffered trauma and loss in a very real way. But, I think because of her academic research background and her desire for evidence based content, at times, the language can be a bit clinical in nature (for me this is not a bad thing, I am a nerd that way), and she sometimes uses words that may rub some bereaved individuals the wrong way….BUT, stick with it! Even if you aren’t feeling it at first. By the time the author gets to her conclusions of her research in each section, you will be nodding your head in agreement or at least saying to yourself, I can understand that and I should probably try it! This book definitely gave me some new tools to try out and some hope for the future.