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portada Love in the Face of Grief: Transformative Grief Practices for Maintaining Connection, Belonging, and Relationships After a Death
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
236
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.86 x 15.24 cm
ISBN13
9798889843641

Love in the Face of Grief: Transformative Grief Practices for Maintaining Connection, Belonging, and Relationships After a Death

Lorraine Hedtke Msw, Acsw, Phd (Author) · North Atlantic Books · Paperback

Love in the Face of Grief: Transformative Grief Practices for Maintaining Connection, Belonging, and Relationships After a Death - Lorraine Hedtke MSW, ACSW, PhD

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Synopsis "Love in the Face of Grief: Transformative Grief Practices for Maintaining Connection, Belonging, and Relationships After a Death"

A deeply human guide for anyone experiencing grief and loss.

This book rejects the rigid pressures of conventional grief psychology, illuminating powerful truths: relationships and emotional connections don’t end at death. There’s no fixed timeline for “moving on.” And many of the guidelines we’ve been taught around grief are rooted more in self-help myth than in embodied healing wisdom.

Love doesn’t disappear when the one you love dies.

Drawing on decades of professional and personal experience with grief, counselor and professor Lorraine Hedtke offers a layered, relational approach to grief that helps you continue your bond with your loved one—gently, naturally, and with profound emotional honesty. Through client stories, practical tools, and powerful rituals, Love in the Face of Grief guides you into a transformative relationship with loss. You’ll learn how to:

Navigate the complex and sometimes contradictory emotions of grief—like despair, anger, relief, longing, guilt, and resentment—without shameExplore rituals for deepening your relationship with your loved one who’s passedDraw on the stories of the dead as sources of wisdom and active guidance—not just reminiscenceHonor and listen to the way they show up posthumously, in dreams, symbols, memories, and intuitionUse grief practices to access strength, resilience, legacy, and purposeDefine an active role in your life for your deceased loved one
This book approaches grief as a communal event, echoing the work of elders like Francis Weller, Joanna Macy, and Martín Prechtel. Hedtke shows you how connection to your loved one can be found in the most unlikely of places and cultivated throughout a lifetime. Love in the Face of Grief is a balm, an invitation, and necessary counterbalance to a culture that asks us to close up and move on. Above all, it shows us what to do with all our enduring love, even after the one we love is gone.

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