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    A Journey Through Grief: Gentle, Specific Help to Get You Through the Most Difficult Stages of Grieving
    A Journey Through Grief: Gentle, Specific Help to Get You Through the Most Difficult Stages of Grieving
    A Journey Through Grief: Gentle, Specific Help to Get You Through the Most Difficult Stages of Grieving
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    A Journey Through Grief: Gentle, Specific Help to Get You Through the Most Difficult Stages of Grieving

    By Alla Renée Bozarth

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    For those of us working through the heartbreak of grief, author Bozarth offers wise and comforting advice.

    For those of us working through the heartbreak of grief, author Bozarth offers wise and comforting advice.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHazelden Publishing
    Release dateSep 20, 2010
    ISBN9781592859382
    A Journey Through Grief: Gentle, Specific Help to Get You Through the Most Difficult Stages of Grieving

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      A Journey Through Grief - Alla Renée Bozarth

      A Journey Through Grief

      A Journey Through Grief

      Gentle, Specific Help to Get You Through

      the Most Difficult Stages of Grieving

      Alla Renée Bozarth, Ph.D.

      Hazelden Publishing

      Center City, Minnesota 55012–1076

      800-328-9000

      hazelden.org/bookstore

      © 1990 by Alla Renée Bozarth, Ph.D. All rights reserved. First published by Hazelden Foundation 1994 (originally published by CompCare Publishers 1990). Printed in the United States of America. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher.

      ISBN: 1-56838-037-2

      Ebook ISBN: 978-1-59285-938-2

      Acknowledgments

      Author’s poems first published in other books

      From Sparrow Songs, René Bozarth and Alla Bozarth-Campbell, St. Paul’s Press and Wisdom House Press, 1982

      Parting

      Dance for Me When I Die

      Love Mantra for Letting Go

      From Life Is Goodbye, Life Is Hello, Grieving Well through All Kinds of Loss, Alla Renée Bozarth, Hazelden

      Good-bye Means God Be with You

      Scars

      Daughter-rite

      Continue Becoming the Person You Want to Be

      Two Houses

      Life after Death

      Reincarnation

      Journey

      Loving the Body

      After Dismembering

      Awakening

      Journey

      One way or another

      more naked when we die

      than at birth.

      Emptied.

      Unharnessed.

      Unencumbered.

      Untangled.

      Allowed

      for the journey

      only as much

      as will fit

      into the hand

      of God.

      A Journey Through Grief

      I speak to you today, my friend, as a companion on a journey. I speak from my own experience as one who has gone on a grief journey several times. I speak to you on the basis of what I have learned personally, in my soul, about letting go.

      I bear down hard

      on all life’s losses.

      Each one is unique, it’s true.

      As no love is the same,

      no loss is.

      I have to let each one

      out of me separately,

      give each loss the scream

      that belongs to its

      own love’s ecstacy.

      If I succeed, one by one,

      in letting go, in remembering

      myself, I may again know

      that dreamy sweetness,

      the smells of love,

      what life is, the feeling

      of emergence from bliss.

      To surrender to one’s own grief and to become actively engaged in it require tremendous courage. This

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