Hope & Healing for Transcending Loss - by Ashley Davis Bush (Paperback)

About the Book

"Ashley Davis Bush published Transcending Loss in 1997. Since then she has grown her Transcending Loss brand by becoming a sought-after speaker for professional conferences and by reaching out directly to the bereaved through online communities where she has established tens of thousands of followers.In her new book Hope & Healing for Transcending Loss, Bush offers daily readings--bite-sized lifelines and glimpses of hope for those coping with the death of a loved one. The book comprises a brief introduction, a brief conclusion, and 365 daily meditations, plus a few additional pieces for particularly difficult occasions like death date, birth date, anniversary, holidays, and more. Scattered throughout are calming photographs for further contemplation or stillness.Bush's writings focus on normalizing and validating the incredibly painful process of grieving. She offers a compassionate perspective on staying connected to the deceased, focusing on love, living with gratitude, channeling pain to compassion, transcending loss, making meaning, and living into a new self"--

Book Synopsis

You Are Not Alone in Your Grief and Bereavement

A pocketbook full of hope for one of the hardest experiences to go through, this guide will be the friend who listens to you and offers you the strength to smile again.

It's easy to feel unmoored when we lose someone close. We need to find a new rhythm to our days and new ways to connect to the ones we've lost. How does one move on after the death of a loved one? Ashley Davis Bush wrote this book to offer you just that: small doses of comfort and hope for getting through your day when you are still heavy with grief.

There can be joy even in the darkest of times. Each bite-sized reading offers reassurance that healing is possible, whether it's an ordinary day of living with loss or a special anniversary day. Poetic words, combined with photographic images throughout the book, help provide solace along with the perspective that love always transcends even the deepest loss. Learn how to find:

• Comfort through grief
• Hope from pain
• Life after loss

"Death doesn't end the relationship, it simply forges a new type of relationship─one based on memory, spirit, and love..." - Ashley Davis Bush, LICSW

If you have read books like Tuesdays with Morrie, Finding Meaning, or Healing After Loss, then you'll find comfort and strength in Ashley Davis Bush's Hope & Healing for Transcending Loss.

Review Quotes

Twenty-five years spent working with grieving clients has given Ashley Bush a great deal of insight into the processes involved in healing from the loss of a loved one. Transcending Loss, her bestseller, has been helping people for decades. Now she has created a very special tool which those recovering from loss can use daily to help themselves process the painful change that they are living through. It is a book of daily meditations for those struggling with profound loss. But don't be deceived by the book's familiar thought-for-the-day format. Her concise introduction to these meditations contains an astounding amount of valuable information about grieving. Contradicting many of the standard grieving myths, she isn't sugar-coating any of it or telling readers to get over it. Instead, she tells us that the pain doesn't stop, that there is no closure. She tells us that the goal is merging the loss into our lives and eventually transcending the pain. The 365 meditations she has put together gently take readers through the journey of getting to know grief and accept it. Each meditation ends with a one sentence daily affirmation. The book also contains a section for Special Trigger Days, and a carefully selected list of Suggested Reading. -Anna Jedrziewski, Retailing Insight-- "Reviews"

About the Author

Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW, is the internationally bestselling author of six self-help books including the classic Transcending Loss. She has appeared on the Diane Rehm Show, MSNBC, Fox News, The Iyanla Show, and countless radio programs. She earned a BA from Smith College and an MSW from Columbia University's School of Social Work. Visit Ashley online at www.ashleydavisbush.com.