The Art of Saying Goodbye
        A powerful statement of comfort and hope that will show you how to love yourself through the excruciating pain of losing a loved one. It will also teach you how to transform the essence of your loss into a powerful part of your personality as well as enable you to savor the preciousness of this moment, the only moment you can truly be alive.
        Dr. Samuels places grief in a new light, as a measure of how well we have lived and how deeply we have loved, but also how it can be used as a means of personal growth. Readers will learn how to how to transform their loss into a rite of passage while embracing impermanence as a way of life.


  Author: Arthur Samuels
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Table of Contents
Dedication V
How to use this book XI
Introduction XXI
It feels like I'm drowning XIV

1 Good grief! 1
   
    Badge of success
    Rite of passage
    Creating a new self
    Opportunity for new life
    Honoring your ancestors
    The five jewels of dreaming

2 The difference between grief and depression 9

3 You have all it takes to see it through 13

    The inner self
    The outer self
    The soul self
    The god self or universal energy
    The higher self
   
4 Who will take care of me? 21

    Nurturing your inner self
    Meditation on the inner self
    Making room for god
    More ways of nurturing yourself through grief

5 Stages of grief 35

    Numbing out
    Denial
    Anger and guilt
    Pacts with god
    Deep depression

6 Creative grieving process 43

    Saying goodbye
    Nurturing your inner self
    Your true inheritance
    Feel gratitude
    Case vignette of creating grieving

7 Turning a negative legacy into a positive one 55

    Inherited negative rules
    Positive drivers
    Unspoken negative drivers

8 Guilt 71

    Case vignette of guilt

9 Why is it so difficult to grieve? 75

    Crying is healing

10 Avoiding grief avoids living 79

    Case vignette of avoiding grief

11 Can you really lose someone you love? 83

12 Confronting your own morality 87

    Lose a body, gain a universe
    Celebrating the journey
    Death as an illumination of life
   
13 Grief frees you 91

    Recasting roles impaired by loss
    Case vignette
    Recasting your injured role

14 Creating a new life from your soul 103

    Moving past the stuck place
    Joining the soul of your beloved
    Meditation of the breath of life
    Your higher self can advise you

15 Grief as a consequence of divorce or separation 115

    Divorce shock
    The torment of ambivalence
    Divorce myths
    Damages self-image
    Guilt about leaving
    Healing the wounds
    Special aspects of creative grieving in divorce
    Other loses
    case vignettes

16 Grieving other losses 137

    Grief of temporary separation
    Grief from loss of a familiar place
    Grief from losing your job, money, or social status
    Money griefs
    Grief of moving to a foreign country
    Cherishing your roots
    Embracing your new country

Summary 150
Conclusion 151
About the author 152