Praise for Transcending Loss
"For anyone who has suffered a tragic loss, grieving is a lifelong process. This compassionate, poignant and practical guide begins where How to Survive the Loss of a Love leaves off - the long-term adaptation to major loss. Ashley Prend shows you how to transform lingering darkness and despair into love and light. Transcending Loss will be a great blessing on your lifetime journey of recovery"
Harold H. Bloomfield, MD, psychiatrist and author
How to Survive the Loss of a Love
"Dealing with a death in the family or in any part of the personal world is awful. There is no advice, no system, no secret to making it better. But now there is a book to make the grieving and the rest of the experience understandable. This is that book. It is a superbly researched and written guide through the tragedies none of us can avoid."
Jim Lehrer, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
"What a magnificent gift to those who are experiencing grief and to others seeking that depth of emotional understanding. Ashley Davis Prend will bring transcending inspiration and perceptive insights to many grieving hearts."
Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, D.D., author of
Living When a Loved One Has Died
"Ashley Prend has given an essential gift to those who grieve: a sense of community. Transcending Loss offers those who mourn and those who counsel them a guiding hand and compassionate voice. This book is more than a 'how-to'; it is a best friend."
Barbara L. Ascher, author of Landscape Without Gravity: A Memoir of Grief
"Ashley Prend's book moves us beyond a discussion of coping with loss to a much larger perspective on the ways that we live with and transcend grief. It is a very special and sensitively written book that would be valuable to both the bereaved and those that work with them."
Kenneth J. Doka, Ph.D., author of Disenfranchised Grief and editor of Death and Spirituality
"Transcending Loss is a book that provides an inspiring model for any one of us who has suffered a loss of any kind. To transcend loss means to grow from the experience - as awful, as painful, as gut-wrenching as it is - but to use this pain as a means to gather strength, to hope once again that life holds meaning. Prend has punctuated her work with sensitive and loving examples as she gently pulls us through the many problems of grieving. She shows us a spiritual pathway that ultimately leads to healing, transforming the nightmare of grief into a place of strength and new energy. This book guides one through the darkness of bereavement and lifts one lovingly onto a new beginning."
Catherine Sanders, Ph.D.., author of Surviving Grief and Learning to Live Again
"Compassionate, eloquent, but above all honest, Ashley Prend has written as helpful a book on grief as any I know. Transcending Loss is a wonderful gift both for us and our loved ones."
Forrest Church, author of LIFELINES: Holding on (and Letting Go) and God & Other Famous Liberals
"A guide in our journey through the valley of the emotions of death. Transcending Loss treats reactions that could otherwise provoke self-hatred and guilt as a natural part of that journey. The deeper our journey the more we - like a bone broken - can heal stronger than we were before. No one needs Transcending Loss more than men, the sex ten times more likely to commit suicide after the death of their spouse. So if someone you love is 'taking it like a man,' buy him - or her - Transcending Loss and well, read it to them."
Warren Farrell, Ph.D., author of The Myth of Male Power and Why Men Are the Way They Are
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