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What Forever Means After the Death of a Child is a book about the loss of a child and how it affects the parents. The book discusses how parents must constantly try to balance the seesaw emotions of deep sadness, bittersweet memories, and unanswerable questions on one side with tender mercies, continued learning, and hope for the future on the other.
Parents lives are changed forever when their child dies. Surviving this loss requires parents to continually try to balance the seesaw emotions and experiences of living without their child: deep sadness, bittersweet memories, and unanswerable questions on one side; tender mercies, continued learning and hope for the future on the other. What Forever Means After the Death of a Child, the first and only examination of the loss of an only child and the loss of the role of parent, creates a deep understanding of the challenges bereaved parents face. The author integrates her clinical experience as a psychotherapist, her insider's perspective as a bereaved mother, other parents' experiences, and a researcher's scholarship in order to comprehend the transformed life-world of bereaved parents. For parents seeking to learn about grief and how other parents have survived a child's death, What Forever Means After the Death of a Child offers a wealth of compassionate guidance and wisdom from those who share what is universally regarded as "the worst loss." By understanding how early acute grief evolves over time, what helps and hinders the healing process, and identifying ways parents have created futures that honor their children, new meaning and a purpose for living can be discovered.
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