With insight and compassion, the authors lead readers through their grief and into a healed future of purpose and joy. For the bereaved, their family and friends who don't know where to turn, these are the pages to turn to. -- Eleanore Osborne, Daytona Beach News-Journal
A comforting, yet practical manual on grieving that combines the empathy of real-life storytelling with the candid advice of a renowned bereavement counselor.
The Healing Power of Grief is Gloria Linterman's exploration of the first two years following the death of her precious husband Rick, Her real-life stories of mourning and healing offer up a book full of empathy, compassion, and community for any reader who might be going through a similar journey. It also features psychotherapist and bereavement counselor Dr. Marilyn Stolzman's five stage sequence for healing:
- Shock
- Denial
- Anger
- Depression
- Adjustment
Included within the book is a 100+ page workbook, The Power of Thought, which guides readers through the time sequences of grief and healing. In The Healing Power of Grief, Gloria's honest story combines with Dr. Stolzman's practical vision to help readers find their way from loss and make life more bearable at last.
About the Author: Authors Gloria Lintermans and Marilyn Stolzman, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. have come together once again to create this book after earning their bereavement accreditations and re-loving experience worlds apart--Dr. Stolzman by way of her professional training and work as a professional counselor specializing in bereavement and the Director of H.O.P.E. Unit Foundation for Bereavement, Loss and Transition, a non-profit organization sponsoring unique bereavement support groups for hundreds of people in Southern Calfiornia, and Lintermans, who has mourned, healed and recovered after the death of her husband.
Together they explore and reveal the intricacies to create new, loving relationships following the loss of a spouse. Lintermans is a former syndicated newspaper columnist, currently a freelance writer and author. She has also hosted her own cable television show and radio program. She is the author of The Newly Divorced Book of Protocol (Barricade Books, New York, 1995) and Retro Chic (Really Great Books, Los Angeles, 2002).
