- Bearing the Unbearable
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- More praise for Bearing the Unbearable
- Contents
- List of Grieving Practices Mentioned
- Foreword
- Prologue
- 1. The Role of Others in Our Grief
- 2. Public and Private Grief
- 3. Ritual and Artistic Expressions of Grief
- 4. Early Manifestations of Grief
- 5. Nutrient-Deficient Soil
- 6. Cultural Sensitivity
- 7. Bearing the Unbearable
- 8. Pause, Reflect, and Feel Meaning
- 9. The Terror beneath the Terror
- 10. The Pursuit of Happiness and the Unity of Opposites
- 11. Bypassing Grief, Bypassing Love
- 12. Intensity and Coping
- 13. Contraction and Expansion
- 14. The Collision of Love and Loss
- 15. Boundless and Timeless Love
- 16. Personifying Grief
- 17. Pausing with Grief
- 18. The Practice of Being With
- 19. My Heart Cried Many Tears
- 20. The Barefoot Walkabout
- 21. The Vitality of Self-Care
- 22. Self-Care and Sleep
- 23. Ways to Care for Yourself
- 24. Telling Family and Friends What We Need
- 25. Self-Care as Distraction
- 26. Learning, Adapting, and Trusting Intuition
- 27. Re-Grieving
- 28. Surrendering and Stretching
- 29. When We Fragment
- 30. Duration of Grief
- 31. The Courage to Remember
- 32. Joining Hands
- 33. The Power of Unprocessed Traumatic Grief
- 34. Silenced for Decades
- 35. Guilt and Shame
- 36. Inward and Outward
- 37. Works of Love
- 38. Waves of Grief
- 39. “Remember Me,” She Said
- 40. Ritual and Microritual
- 41. Meaning through Compassionate Action
- 42. Kindness Projects
- 43. Through Knowing Suffering
- 44. Fierce Compassion
- 45. The Horse Chemakoh
- 46. The Price of Unrealized Grief and Trauma
- 47. Transgenerational Grief
- 48. Grief Broth
- 49. The Darkness Has Its Gifts
- 50. What I Know
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
- What to Read Next from Wisdom Publications
- Copyright
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