All the Faces of Grief

All the Faces of Grief Learning to Embrace Your Life After Loss Unresolved grief takes a toll on our body and mind. It shapes our lives and choices until we are creating our lives from a walled off heart and a mind incapable of living in the now. Grief is meant to be transformative, taking us to deeper levels of understanding love and the nature of our experience as humans. Only through exploring, understanding and transmuting our grief are we capable of giving and receiving real love and creating healthy relationships through our genuine compassion for those around us. Our challenge becomes how to work through our grief and still manage our daily lives. We want to be empowered in our own life healing. This is what this book is all about. Both clients and Therapists will benefi t from using this book. CONTENTS Introductionix Part One: Childhood Part Two: Teenage Years41 Part Three: Young Adulthood73 Part Four: Middle Age81 Part Five: Aging and Older Adulthood93 Part Six: Therapeutic Exercises111 About the Author137 Online Resource

Author Biography

Lynette M. Butcher, RN, NBCC, MAC, PhD, Reiki Master and RET technician. She is also a former Mental Health Director for Lutheran Social Services. She is a trained clinical hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner. She combines healing and biophysical response. She has been trained in Shamanic Journeying and is a student of all cultures. In her workshops and retreats, Lynette integrates these studies with her knowledge of what works for people to heal. She uses her background and experience to teach creative approaches for living a Spirit-led life of joy and peace. Grief is the result of loving well and deeply. We are all grievers and lovers and livers. Our job is to synthesize our lives to express the joy in having a life filled with this kind of loving.” Lynette