{"product_id":"grieving-a-beginners-guide","title":"Grieving: A Beginner's Guide","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"McCormack covers so much ground in such a little book that the reader could devour it quickly in hours or spend weeks reading it slowly, savoring each bit of wisdom. Anyone who is grieving or anyone who knows a grieving person will find hope and support in this small book.\"\u003c\/i\u003e --\u003cb\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e, starred review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere is no sure route through grieving. Jerusha McCormack provides instead a series of signposts by which we may find our own path to a new life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"We are all amateurs at grief,\" she writes, \"it comes to us all; we must all go through it. To treat grief as a problem to be fixed, or (worse still) to medicalize it, is to rob us of the extraordinary privilege of encountering this experience on our terms: for each of us has our own way of grieving, and each of us has something special to learn from the process.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Every loss is unique. Each person grieves in his or her own way. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe world is full of invisible sufferers -- those who have lost someone through any manner of catastrophes.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePerhaps nothing draws as deeply on individual creativity as grief does. It is a time to rally your own resources, to use them in such a way as to express your grieving as your own, and thus to take possession to it.\"\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Paraclete Press (MA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51993617891559,"sku":"9781557254931","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_4a7191c8-9776-4744-9060-625ed4003922.jpg?v=1776658014","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/grieving-a-beginners-guide","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}