Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen

Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen

A total revision of the stages of grief, Christina Rasmussen's new book takes a radical approach to bereavement by using neuroscience to honour your past and consider your future positively. After studying to become a therapist and crisis intervention counsellor - even doing her master's thesis on the stages of bereavement - Christina Rasmussen thought she knew what grieving was. But it wasn't until losing her husband to cancer in her early 30s that she truly understood the depths of sorrow and pain that come with it. Using the knowledge she gained while wading through her own grieving process and researching hundreds of neuroscience books, Rasmussen began to look at these experiences in a new way. She realized that grieving plunges you into a gap between worlds - the world before trauma and the world after trauma. She also realized how easy it is to become lost in this gap. In Second Firsts, Rasmussen walks readers through a proven process that helps them break the spiral of pain and create a safe space for their post-grief life to enter. Her method, which she has used successfully online and offline with thousands of clients, is based on the science of neuroplasticity and focuses on consciously releasing pain in ways that both honour suffering and rewire the brain to experience the world in a new way. With understanding and empathy, Rasmussen uses practical exercises and stories drawn from her own life and the lives of her clients to guide readers through five stages of opening up to life. With this knowledge, readers can come out of grief as a new person and start to experience life again - essentially for the first time.

Second Firsts will change the way you think about life after lossWith simplicity, science, and raw authenticity, Christina takes you on a journey from a world of loneliness and pain to one of possibilities and action. Her kind and knowledgeable words provide hope and show you that loss can actually inspire the strength and conviction to create the life of your dreams. And her own life stands as a testament to the power of this process. -- Marci Shimoff #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love for No Reason and Happy for No Reason We can all learn from the wisdom of those who have experienced loss and survived. Second Firsts can be your life coach and direct you to heal and create a new life. -- Bernie Siegel, MD In this moving book, Christina has drawn on both her personal and professional experience with grief to assist those who are suffering to find their way to a new 'normal.' In Second Firsts you will discover how to move from merely surviving to once again thriving. -- Anita Moorjani author of bestselling Dying to Be Me

Christina Rasmussen is on a crusade to change the way we live after loss. As the founder of Second Firsts, an organisation to help people create a pathway back to life after loss, Christina spends her time speaking, coaching and helping thousands of people rebuild, reclaim and relaunch their lives using the most powerful tool for personal reinvention: the human mind. She writes for the Huffington Post, she's been featured as a Woman Working to Do Good in the White House Blog, and she was named the Leading Mom in Business by StartupNation. www.secondfirsts.com and www.thelifestarters.org

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ISBN 13	9781781803424
ISBN 10	1781803420
Title	Second Firsts
Author	Christina Rasmussen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hay House UK Ltd
Year published	2013-11-04
Number of pages	212
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