How to Deal with Grief

The book arrives and I am excited – I flip through pages.  These are the first lines I read “the new model of grief is not in cleaning it up and making it go away. It’s in finding new and beautiful ways to inhabit what hurts. It’s in finding the depth of love necessary to witness each other’s pain without rushing in to clean it up. It’s in standing beside each other and offering companionship.” p.60 It’s Ok That You’re Not OK by Megan Devine.  This is a powerful read and tunes into real experiences of grief that I think many people will find very relatable.

“In 2009, on a beautiful sunny day, Megan Devine witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner Matt. “All my professional experience as a therapist felt meaningless,” she writes. “Grief literature is loaded with well-intended advice that can actually worsen and extend someone’s pain. We just don’t know how to handle loss in our culture.” Megan has dedicated herself to helping people find a new way to deal with loss that honours our experience without trying to ‘solve’ grief.

In It’s OK That You’re Not OK, the author, Megan Devine reveals a path for navigating grief and loss, not by trying to escape it, but by learning to live inside of it with more grace and strength.

Through stories, research, life tips, and mindfulness-based practices, she offers a unique guide through an experience we all must face. Here she debunks the culturally prescribed goal of returning to a normal, ‘happy’ life, replacing it with the skills and tools to help us experience and witness the pain of loss in ourselves and others — so we may meet our grief knowing it to be a natural step in the greater journey of love.” (ref Booktopia)

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