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It's Grief: The Dance of Self-Discovery Through Trauma and Loss - Paperback | Diverse Reads

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In It's Grief, Edy Nathan examines the emotional and devastating impact of loss and trauma. The book illuminates how the brain holds the complex circuitry of grief and then provides choices to help deal with it. Nathan explains this phenomenon through her Eleven Phases of grief, describing how they can move into one another based on one's distinct needs, without adhering to a specific timeline or order. The grief experience is as individual as a fingerprint, and Nathan offers a unique approach to the personal ebbs and flows that exist on a soul level.

Nathan teaches readers that the phases you experience are based on who you are in your grief, and once you can identify how you interact with the world -- as an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert -- the tools that help you help yourself become more abundant and clear. Nathan offers workable tools from two decades of experience to help you actively shift moods, crippling thoughts, and behavior. The corresponding workbook features practical exercises to help without preaching or dictating how to grieve. Take your grief, engage with it, and allow the experience to be a time of insight and growth. A profound read written with both science-based knowledge and heart-centered compassion, It's Grief unravels the mysterious dimensions of this journey with a clarity that transforms grief into one of life's great teachers.

ISBN-13: 9780997174304

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: As I Am Press

Publication Date: 06-14-2018

Pages: 304

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d)

For twenty years Edy Nathan MA, LCSWR had a private practice in New York City. Her work in grief, trauma and sexuality offers insight into the way loss affects the soul and the brain. She now uses her vast experience to reach a wider audience, helping to breathe new meaning into the lives of those stagnated by loss or trauma. She's an author, certified sex therapist, Psychology Today blogger, motivational speaker, and workshop leader. Visit her at edynathan.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Chapter 1 It’s Grief and My Dance With It 1

Chapter 2 Shall We Dance? 11

Chapter 3 Me, Myself, and I: Engage with the Dance of Change 23

Chapter 4 Listen to Your Grief 57

Chapter 5 The Dance of Awareness—Heal at Your Own Pace 89

Chapter 6 Who Are You and How Do You Cope? 99

Shift Happens: Neuroplasticity Allows Your Brain to Heal and Reorganize 132

Chapter 7 The Dance of the Support System: Friends and Family 141

Chapter 8 The Eleven Phases of Grief 153

1. Emotional Armor: Numbness, Hysteria, Denial and Protest, Shock 159

2. Role Confusion 168

3. The Three D’s: Distraction, Depression & Detachment 176

4. Fear and Anxiety 182

5. Anger, Rage, and Despair 194

6. Regret, Guilt, and Shame 208

7. Sadness 214

8. Forgiveness: Letting Go with Insight, Purpose, and Understanding 221

9. Re-Patterning, Calibration, and Integration 228

10. Resolution 230

11. Grace 232

Chapter 9 The Grief Recovery Tool Kit 239

Chapter 10 Moving Forward 253

Acknowledgments 257

Support and Support Groups 261

Bibliography 265

Endnotes 273