Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

This book is a testament to Joanne's unwavering love for all living things and her courage to be Joan Higgs After the stillbirth loss of my first granddaughter in December 2007, I needed help understanding how and why this happened and what I could do about it. I was angry and on a mission but I could not stop crying. My daughter in law and the mother of this precious baby gave me the name of the MISS Foundation and so my journey to understanding began. After many failed attempts to get Joann. Sharing Your Grief Bearing the Unbearable by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore is a heart stopping account of people who have gone through life changing trauma due to a significant loss. Each account is heart stopping and raw and left me in tears. This is a book of lessons. It is teaching me the lesson of compassion. It is a teacher of understanding different cultures. It teaches me that I do not have to grieve in si. A voice for our often silenced grief. Terri W This book will move your soul in the most meaningful, heartbreaking and beautiful ways. Read this. If you have lost someone that you love dearly, read this book. If you love someone who has lost someone that they love dearly, read this book. If you want to be a kinder human and you want to know what compassion looks like in action, read this book. Dr. Jo's ability to capture the gut wre

Dr. The process of grieving can feel wild and nonlinear—and often lasts for much longer than other people, the nonbereaved, tell us it should. If you love, you will grieve—and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. When a loved one dies, the pain of loss can feel unbearable—especially in the case of a traumatizing death that leaves us shouting, “NO!” with every fiber of our body. Organized into fifty-two accessible and stand-alone chapters, this book is also perfect for being read aloud in support groups.. Through moving stories of her encounters with grief over decades of supporting individuals, families, and communities—as well as her own experience with loss—Cacciatore opens a space to process, integrate, and deeply honor our grief.Not just for the bereaved, Bearing the Unbearable will be required reading for grief counselors, therapists and social workers, clergy of all varieties, educators, academics, and medical professionals. Organized into fifty-two short chapters, Bearing the Unbearable is a companion for life’s most difficult times, revealing how grief can open our hearts to connection, compassion, and the very essence of our shared humanity. Joanne Cacciatore—bereavement educator, researcher, Zen priest, and leading counselor i

This book is destined to be a classic, simply the best book I have ever read on the process of grief.” (Huffington Post)“In this poignant, heartrending, and heart-lifting book, Joannne Cacciatore teaches how loss is transformed to peace, devastating grief to active and practical love. It shows grieving human beings how to reclaim the process as normal and sacred, and how to insist on defining the process for themselves, which leads to powerful healing…This book will become a staple in my practice, and as well as at Warfighter ADVANCE pr

She’s also been researching and writing about grief for more than a decade in her role as associate professor at Arizona State University and director of the Graduate Certificate in Trauma and Bereavement program there. She travels quite often but spends most of her time in Sedona, Arizona, with her family and three rescue dogs. The