"Fully engaging in mourning means you will be a different person than before you began."
For those who mourn a death, for those who would help them, for those who face a loss of any kind, Brener teaches us the power and strength available to us in the fully experienced mourning process. Guided writing exercises help stimulate the processes of both conscious and unconscious healing.
"A stunning book! It offers an exploration in depth of the place where psychology and religious ritual intersect, and the name of that place is Truth." --Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Mourning & Mitzvah:
No matter what our religious orientation may be, this book helps the bereaved individual work through their feelings by pulling them out and writing them down. Those who had difficulty getting into the book may also have difficulty in connecting with their feelings, which is probably why grief gets buried or glossed over sometimes . . a very damaging kind of denial I think.
Help along a hard path:
It is hard work to grieve. This book and its exercises help on this difficult process. Through 60 journaling exercises, you are asked to express how you feel, based on the belief that painful emotions and sorrowful feelings can't change unless they are expressed. This book helped me in the expression of that feeling. The other realization from this book is that you still have a relationship with the person that is gone. Like any relationship, this one is special (perhaps the most special relationship) and... more info
Comfort after a loss:
When my spouse was taken I found myself entering a deep depression. My life, my very existance was turned updide down. I did not understand the oath taken so many years ago at our marriage - "Until death do we part". Now I do. My Rabbi gave me a copy of Anne Brener's book and after about a month I started to browse through it. It only took a few hours to realise this book was a friend - it addressed my feelings and has helped me continue my life. I hope that in time I will heal - I know so much more... more info
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Get this book. Can be: read out-of-order; in small chunks; worked through mentally or on paper; put down for a few days/weeks while you're processing your grief; appreciated by Jewish folk as well as by the non-Jewish person, by the spiritual as well as those who are not so inclined. In the most difficult of situations, Mourning and Mitzvah offers comfort for the bereaved. The author speaks from her own experience: her sister died in an accident only months after their mother's suicide. Mourning and Mitzvah... more info
