The Sorrow and the Fury: Overcoming Hurt and Loss from Childhood to Old Age

Dealing with all kinds of loss, from simple to complex, Freeman begins with a quote from Marcel Proust, "We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full." The chapter title How To Face Loss has some particularly helpful material. There are surprising and helpful suggestions in chapters like Combating Loss with Creativity and Overcoming Loss with Laughter.When death invades your life and leaves you struggling to go on, reading books like this can distract you for a time, but nothing but living through the grief can actually help. The message here -- and in every book on grieving -- is endure. It will get better in time. You will learn to live with the pain and you will laugh again.