Beschrijving

Shades of Sorrow, Visions of Fulfillment

When you’ve drunk the bitter cupful,
you will find a rare jewel at the bottom.
B. A. Elliott

Sorrow is no stranger to anyone’s life. Sorrow is usually associated with loss, grief and uninvited change. It may be tied to a loss of status or role as when a marriage ends or the last child leaves home. Some suffer at the loss of place: a desert lover transplanted to a Northeastern city. Who has not felt emotional pain at the fading of a friendship? We anguish over lost illusions and unrealized hopes.
Catastrophic Grief (CG) is a natural, predictable response to uncontrollable disruption, as when a loved one dies or a frightening illness is diagnosed. The term Catastrophic Grief is coined here to describe the alienating, bewildering, disorienting, anguished response to great loss and great fear. Depression and even despair frequently result, sometimes with lifelong effect.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) manifests in persistently disruptive perceptions and behaviors. It is endemic in modern culture. It results from intrusive events overwhelming the mind-emotion-physical-spirit (MEPS) resources.
Mind’s capacity for reason and learning is how we distinguish ourselves from other life forms. Body is where we live, how we recognize ourselves. Emotion is the product of Mind and Body’s interaction. Spirit is unprovable and undeniable: it is our essence. Basic to this book’s message of hope for the rebirth of pleasure are reconciliation and balance between our elements, our MEBS.
This book is a User’s Manual, written for in-the-trenches therapists as well others wounded by hurtful events. Wounded has special importance. This suffering is not an \