You Are Not Alone - by Debbie Augenthaler (Paperback)

About the Book

Debbie takes readers by the hand and offers them gentle insights for healing and hope, while sharing her powerful story of loss. As a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and grief, Debbie and her wisdom can help you too.

Book Synopsis

Has someone you love died? Or have you experienced another kind of loss where you feel like a part of you has died? Do you feel alone in what you're experiencing? You're not alone. When Debbie Augenthaler was 36 years-old, her husband Jim died suddenly and unexpectedly, in her arms, of a heart attack. Debbie thought her life was over and felt hopeless about the future. Yet today she is living a life filled with love, hope, and meaning.

Just as she has helped many grief-stricken people as a psychotherapist specializing in trauma, grief, and loss, Debbie and her wisdom can help you too. In her book. Debbie combines her personal story of devastating loss with practical insights and simple suggestions for healing and hope.

With the connection of a shared experience, 'You Are Not Alone' is a gentle guide through grief, transformation, and a new beginning.

Review Quotes

"Debbie Augenthaler is that rare combination of someone who has endured great personal loss and a skilled, caring clinician who has figured out how to use that experience to help others cope successfully with grief. Her book is unique because, as she says, "she gets it." She is a beautiful writer who inspires the reader to imagine the transformative power of grief and leads the way to healing and hope."

-- Shelley Reciniello, Ph.D., author of The Conscious Leader, Winner, Best Motivational Business Book, INDIE Excellence Awards 2015

"What a gift Debbie Augenthaler has given us! Grief is a road each of us must travel in our lives that feels at once impossibly difficult yet completely inevitable. If ever a journey called for a wise companion, it is the trail from loss to healing. In You Are Not Alone, Debbie has descended to the depths of her own grief to surface with treasures in the form of practical insights and simple suggestions for healing. If you or someone you love is facing a loss, one could not ask for a better guide."

-- Joel ben Izzy, Storyteller and author of The Beggar King and The Secret to Happiness

"Writer and psychotherapist Debbie Augenthaler has done what she set out to do: based on her personal and professional experience, she has written a book which will assist those dealing with the death of a loved one. Without question, the reader will gain comfort from Ms. Augenthaler's understanding, experience, genuine concern, and humanity."

-- Judie Alpert, Ph.D. Professor of Applied Psychology, New York University

""You Are Not Alone" is a must read for anyone dealing with extreme loss, and a recommended book for the rest of us. It's a wonderful combination of story and guide. Organized in a way that makes it both a riveting read, as well as a practical how-to book on rebuilding one's life after devastating loss."

-- Yitzhak Berger, Ph.D., CRC, Adj. Associate Professor, New York University

""You Are Not Alone" is a beautifully expressed book that will give readers the confidence to deal with their loss and grief, and appreciate the deeper compassion they develop while dealing with grief. The combination of prose, poems, and tips for quick meditations make it an interesting guide and, at the same time, it shows readers how to find their direction. Most importantly, the book gives hope to all those who are grieving."

-- Mamta Madhavan for Readers' Favorite