I came across this author by listening to a talk of hers which she did for the BACP. She came across as warm, kind and had amazing insight into the world of bereavement which I found so intriguing.
Straight afterwards, I looked up this book and bought it!
This book has a very interesting look at grief from many different types of experiences. Each chapter is set on the different types of bereavement one may experience: death of a parent, partner, child, sibling, and facing your own death.
Within each of these are client stories about about how each of them have been affected and their journey through therapy. At the end of each chapter, Samuels writes a reflection through her as a therapist, which is very informative and insightful.
This is book is very bittersweet as through the sadness and tears of each story, are the journeys each person went through to become a changed person; surviving with loss.
Samuels ends with chapters on the work we need to do to help us grieve and survive successfully.
This book truely highlights of how we how we all grieve differently and normalises that fact. The loss never leaves us but in time we learn to grow with it, and have a different kind of relationship with whom we have lost.
The clients I have recommended this book to have sung its praises. One client said they read every page through eyes filled with tears but they were so glad they read it as it felt she needed to understand what she was going through was normal.
I would fully reccomend this book for both clients and therapists.
5/5
Charli Davies
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