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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ashley Prend has written a sensitive and well organized book that is good for clinicians and those coping with loss. Her clear delineation of the stages of grief and the hope she holds out that one can get through the stuck places and make loss meaningful stand out. She writes well and the structure of the book makes it easy to read. The message that one does not need to "get over" one's loss is an important one as is her SOAR solution for integrating the loss in one's life so that one can "get on with" life.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ashley Davis Prend makes a bold move to help people struggling with grief. No other authority has touched on the concept of how grief is processed for a life-time more comprehensively. Prend makes clear the fact that our quality of living is dramatically changed with each loss. She also points out that each of us make an individual choice in whether we use grief to resign from life or use it to design our life. In this book you will find useful information on how to deal with the early stages of loss, (acute grief) to how to reinvest in new ways of living that are meaningful and joyful. The only missing ingredient that I see is how to motivate grieving people to envision that possibility. Prend touches the wholistic concepts of body, mind, and spirit with her SOAR concepts. Many will find these practical ideas enough to help them make their transition from the negative aspects of grief and to transcend its holdf to a positive way of new found joy. The motivational aspect, which is a most critical first step, becomes a very minor omittance. Prend's book will be a cornerstone for a new type of grief therapy that provides honest, accurate, and truthful answers for all of us who suffer loss and for those who care for them. Prend's book is supberb.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
A beautifully written book about coping with loss
4 July 1998
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Ashley Prend has written a sensitive and well organized book that is good for clinicians and those coping with loss. Her clear delineation of the stages of grief and the hope she holds out that one can get through the stuck places and make loss meaningful stand out. She writes well and the structure of the book makes it easy to read. The message that one does not need to "get over" one's loss is an important one as is her SOAR solution for integrating the loss in one's life so that one can "get on with" life.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
A practical book that dignifies grief's lifelong process.
28 Jun 1998
Format:Paperback
Ashley Davis Prend makes a bold move to help people struggling with grief. No other authority has touched on the concept of how grief is processed for a life-time more comprehensively. Prend makes clear the fact that our quality of living is dramatically changed with each loss. She also points out that each of us make an individual choice in whether we use grief to resign from life or use it to design our life. In this book you will find useful information on how to deal with the early stages of loss, (acute grief) to how to reinvest in new ways of living that are meaningful and joyful. The only missing ingredient that I see is how to motivate grieving people to envision that possibility. Prend touches the wholistic concepts of body, mind, and spirit with her SOAR concepts. Many will find these practical ideas enough to help them make their transition from the negative aspects of grief and to transcend its holdf to a positive way of new found joy. The motivational aspect, which is a most critical first step, becomes a very minor omittance. Prend's book will be a cornerstone for a new type of grief therapy that provides honest, accurate, and truthful answers for all of us who suffer loss and for those who care for them. Prend's book is supberb.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Helpful and hopeful without being trite
12 Nov 2001
Format:Paperback
Along the lines of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People," this book can really helpful in allowing you work through your grief in a positive, healthy way.
I have experienced a great deal of loss in my life (parent, sister, husband) and -- at 34 years old -- am not one to swallow trite explanations like "everything happens for a reason." This book doesn't try to do that, but it does try to help you figure out how to go on with the rest of your life and find joy.
I would recommend it to anyone who is suffering a loss. It would make a very meaningful gift, as well.
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