The Tender Path of Grief & Loss - (Robert Jackman's Practical Wisdom Healing) by Robert Jackman (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Growing through Your Grieving -Naming, Claiming and Healing Your Loss

Sometimes the pain of loss feels like molten lava in our hearts, a burden that no one wants to hold. If you're seeking expert guidance on healing the loss you feel deep inside, this book is for you. Know that your heart is expanding to hold the lessons grief is teaching you.

With gentle compassion, Robert Jackman invites you to acknowledge and honor your grief instead of pushing it away. Join in this walk on the tender path as you explore elements of the Shockwave, the Stretch and the Solace and learn to weave a loss into the tapestry of your life.

Accessible and relatable, this is two books in one, offering practical wisdom to guide your journey through pain into hope and heartfelt, encouraging stories of those who discovered their inner strength in times of overwhelming loss.

The Tender Path of Grief and Loss will help you:

• Develop key skills for navigating loss
• Set boundaries to protect yourself from emotional landmines
• Identify unacknowledged losses that contribute to anxiety and depression
• Learn how to hold space for the unfixable and unsolvable
• Use self-care and compassion to heal
• Discover new ways to comfort a grieving friend or loved one

Review Quotes

"The Tender Path of Grief and Loss will resonate with anyone who is struggling to heal after experiencing loss. [This] primer should be on the reading list of those who have lost and are grieving and any human being who wants to better understand how to find hope in hopeless situations. Choosing the 'tender path' involves an amazing journey of growth and realization. Its message offers wide-ranging opportunities for reflection, discussion, and insights, making this book a top recommendation for libraries."

- D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

"No one is eager to learn the lessons that loss and grief teach us. It is a skilled author who offers these lessons with sensitivity, depth, vulnerability, voices of insight, and pragmatic tools and resources for healing. This book provides a memorable structure to the grieving process. Each of the nine stories illustrates a different facet of loss and grief. Jackman gently invites all of us who will walk the tender path to 'take the time to find a place inside to honor the loss, to create a safe container to hold this sacredness as we continue on with our lives.' I encourage you to read this book and return to it as a rich resource."

- Rev. Linda S. Slabon, M.Div., M.A., MSW, LCSW

"Robert Jackman leads us on a sacred journey into the three phases of grief. He includes compelling, heartfelt stories and discovers along with us the power and tenderness of grieving. I'm excited to share this book with my clients as a powerful tool and reflection of the emotional stages of grief and loss. Jackman's skilled, tender, and wise approach enabled me to explore my own grief cycles and heal myself further."

- DK Foster, Birth and Death Doula, Yachats, Oregon

"Readers will be comforted and inspired by Robert Jackman's erudite masterpiece on grief. This rare book weaves delightful prose, enlightening aphorisms, brave self-reflections, inspirational case examples, and easy-to-comprehend and perform instructions. The Tender Path of Grief and Loss will open long-closed doors that invisibly shield people from their own catastrophic grief. Any book that helps readers to courageously recollect, process, and eventually integrate any form of stuck grief is one to cherish."

- Ross Rosenberg, M.Ed., LCPC, CADC, psychotherapist and author of The Human Magnet Syndrome and creator of the Self-Love Recovery Treatment program

"With insight, empathy, and compassion, Jackman creatively blends stories of several types of grief and loss experiences with exercises and tools to help the reader navigate through this challenging journey. In The Tender Path of Grief and Loss, he describes weaving together the tapestry of life and honoring our losses-each thread representing an important component to our healing journey."

- Sherry O'Brian, LCSW, DCEP, author of Peaks and Valleys: Integrative Approaches for Recovering from Loss

"Another great book by psychotherapist and author Robert Jackman. He shows us how to recognize unresolved losses and walks us through helpful tools and effective techniques to hold the grief and weave it into the tapestry of who we are. The stories are a testament to the compassion and connection Jackman has as a skilled therapist to his clients. This relationship allowed them to share their most painful and personal journeys. The reader will be left feeling compassion, inspiration, and hope that they can create a fulfilling and meaningful life and find joy again after loss. I will absolutely recommend this extraordinary book."

- Jacqueline Marshall, LCSW