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    Sacred Grief: Exploring A New Dimension to Grief

    By Leslee Tessmann

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    About this ebook

    Are you ready to discover what lies beyond the ordinary experience of grief?

    Sacred Grief offers an intriguing exploration of the far-reaching ripple effect of our present-day opinions about surviving grief's emotional roller-coaster and the unnecessary suffering our judgments unconsciously promote. You'll find comfort in discovering that there's another dimension to this universal experience--a dimension that fosters trust, kindness and compassion, peacefully heals, and steadfastly moves you towards your soul's deepest desires and dreams.

    Praise for Sacred Grief

    "Because we will all have the experience, Sacred Grief is a compelling guide for everyone searching for the sweetness in life's great passages."
    --Gregg Braden, author, The Divine Matrix and The God Code

    "Sacred Grief is a holy handbook for gleaning the gifts of the journey called grief."
    --Mary Manin Morrissey, Co-founder, Association for Global New Thought

    "Sacred Grief is a welcome departure from the conventional advice about 'surviving' grief."
    --Jill Carroll, Ph.D., Executive Director, Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance, Rice University

    "I highly recommend this book to anyone that has experienced any type of loss in their lives and is willing to look at the loss through a different set of eyes. Tessman, in Sacred Grief, will lead the reader to a place of compassion for oneself, create a relationship with his/her own grief, and ultimately create a place of understanding and a healed soul."
    --Irene Watson, Managing Editor, Reader Views

    Learn more about this book at www.SacredGrief.com

    Another great self-help book from Loving Healing press www.LovingHealing.com

    SEL010000 Self-Help : Death, Grief, Bereavement
    FAM014000 Family & Relationships : Death, Grief, Bereavement
    SOC036000 Social Science : Death & Dying

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLoving Healing Press Inc
    Release dateApr 1, 2008
    ISBN9781615999569
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    • 4/5
      Sacred Grief was such a thin volume that it lay undisturbed for a week or two after it arrived by mail in what I thought was a stack of catalogs. When I finally unearthed it, I found its basic tenet -- to embrace as sacred the good, the bad and the ugly feelings that come with grief -- whenever they present themselves -- to be a very healthy approach to picking up and carrying on after a great loss. The author's insights about the gift of compassion that comes to those who have experienced a loss certainly square with my experiences. I had a bit of a love/hate relationship with the plain language in Sacred Grief. At times the book seemed to repeat itself, or try to clobber me over the head with a concept. Ultimately, however, I was won over by the simple, direct appeal.
    • 1/5
      Author Leslee Tessman is clearly a woman in search of something. Her book Sacred Grief is the reflections of a life lived with much pain and grief. There are honest and open expressions of her personal relationship with grief. While we all develop ways of dealing with our own personal emotional realities, the conscious or subconscious methods that we often fall into are not always helpful. Tessman recommends accepting grief as a friend. Embracing the ebb and flow of emotions that come and allowing them to lead to inner healing and peace. The path that she has found, and now wishes to help others discover, is presented in her own language and not that of the standard professional counselor. Her language and reasoning are at times hard to follow. The book also includes some personal experiences and techniques that will prove unsettling to many Christians. Although there are some helpful concepts offered in the book I cannot recommend it.
    • 5/5
      Sacred Grief: Exploring a New Dimension to GriefBy Leslee TessmannLoving Healing Press April 2008This was a publisher ARC and I wish someone had given me this book fifteen, twenty, thirty, or even 45 years ago. While Freud and Kubler-Ross had much insight into grief and grieving and changed the way we grieve and watch/help others grieve, this book moves beyond the processes in which we can become trapped to free us.The concept of each moment being sacred is not new. In fact, Ram Dass’s book Be Here Now has had a great impact on many people and many movements since its first publication. However, the concept of grief as sacred, to be embraced, as moments of recognition, is very new and very needed. In addition to the references to AA and Al-Anon, to Chodron and Williamson and T. Moore and C. Myss, I would place this book squarely in the middle of the centering prayer movement, begun within the work of Thomas Merton and carried on by Thomas Keating and his brothers from the monastery out into the world. The Appendix with its self-reflective questions for each chapter, intended for journaling, for use with a partner or a group, would be as much at home in the context of spiritual direction and discernment as in the world of psychology, as some of the choices in the too-short bibliography indicate.The very last page of the regular text states: “The true essence of world peace lies in being with things just the way they are. Achieving that will require compassion on the part of every human being to have a world that is willing to be with things exactly as they are for longer than a few fleeting seconds” (121). She talks about hiding for twenty-five years, about losing herself in her attempts to keep herself safe. Those pieces of information tie me to her uncannily, as does the fact that I’m reading this book at almost the same age that she was when she wrote it.Her short list of “rules” on pages 25-26, juxtapositioned with the “shoulds” on page 21 are familiar inhabitants of my world. More importantly, however, is Tessmann’s recognition that there are the big griefs in life – deaths, unwanted divorces – but also the little griefs that come with inevitable changes in our lives, daily grief that must be handled in order for us to find peace.It has been a couple of months since I read this the first time, in one long night, laughing and crying at the content. It has taken time for me to work through the concepts in my heart as well as in my head. I recommend the book for anyone and everyone who has experienced loss in his or her life.Thank you, Leslee Tessmann for a book that is both beautiful and useful. Thank you Loving Healing Press for publishing such a magnificent book.F. Holt 8/12/2008
    • 4/5
      Sacred Grief takes a different approach to the grief process from many other books on this very delicate topic. An approach that leaves we thinking, "now why didn't I think of that"?In this slim volume the author shares her story and her process or more aptly, refusal to process her myriad of losses and grief’s. In so sharing the reader is able to see that it is possible to just let the grief be what it is. When we begin to realize that grief is an emotion like any other emotion we have, and that there is no need to hide from it or fear it, or worse suppress it, we have taken the first step. It is “sacred”, “precious”, and to be respected. We need to allow ourselves the freedom to “be” in the very emotional moment of grief washing over us, whether we are experiencing a devastating death of a loved one, the loss of job, or the waning of a friendship. They are all losses on some level whether we choose to deal with them immediately or many years down the road. It’s not so much a matter of when but a matter of how. The author found for herself and hopes that the reader too will find that if we stay present and honour all of our emotions not matter what they are only then will we begin to heal, find peace and even grow to develop wider compassions that ripple out to the our global community. A great book for those seeking an alternate perspective on dealing with grief and loss. A simple approach that makes a lot of sense.
    • 5/5
      Sacred Grief presents a message that is not often heard in Western culture; this message is one that touts the importance of living in the present. Where grief is concerned, the author writes that we need to respect it and experience it when it is present, but we are not to indulge it or suppress it. How are we supposed to view grief? Summed up nicely in chapter eight, we need to experience it, realize it has an honorable purpose, and accept that it is supposed to be a part of our life, but it is not supposed to consume our life. A word of advice on chapter eight, if you are in a hurry to get right through this book and skip right to that chapter, you will miss out on some important concepts the author discusses earlier in the book. It would be difficult to get the full impact of this chapter with out understanding how the author worked up to it. Also, don’t be fooled, like I was, in thinking you will be able to read this book in one day. It may be small (only 172 pages) but it carries a lot of weight. I had to read it twice, and could have even read it a third time as the author provides many fresh and intriguing ideas for consideration. I would suggest this book for any one that is currently in the grieving process, but I would also suggest it for some one currently removed from the grieving process. Being armed with the information in this book would help a person when they do face that inevitable and sacred part of life, grief over some type of loss.
    • 5/5
      Review of “Scared Grief”I really enjoyed reading the Scared Grief, what I enjoyed most was the way the author explored the subject of grief. We have all experienced grief at one time or another but have likely never gave the feeling any analysis. The book gave me a new understand of grief. I especially liked the chapter on separating facts from fiction with its explanation of the scared. There were a lot of illustrations that helped define a difficult subject to for me.I highly recommend this book.