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Mending the Torn Fabric: For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them (Death, Value and Meaning)
Mending the Torn Fabric For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them - Death, Value and Meaning Author:Sarah Brabant The analogy of the torn fabric was first used by the author in response to a bereaved mother's cry: "I know what grief feels like; I don't know what it looks like." In Mending the Torn Fabric: For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them, the author expands the metaphor to include earlier and future or potential losses as well as losses ... more »associated with the death that may be unrecognized or minimized. This book includes chapters that examine complications that may be present or may arise, suggestions for mending even the most torn fabric, and a chapter dedicated to friends who want to help. Stories bereaved persons have shared with the author through the years are interspersed throughout the book to provide examples of loss and mending. In developing the analogy, the book provides a map of the grieving process that is readily comprehended and that can be revisited time and time again both in part and as an entire entity. Although the analogy itself is simple and easy to understand, it is firmly grounded in theory, consistent with recognized and accepted suppositions about grief, and congruent with desired therapeutic goals.« less