The Gifts of Grief
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The Gifts of Grief by Therese Tappouni
At some point in our lives, we all experience grief:
The death of a loved one, a financial catastrophe, a debilitating illness, or the ending of a marriage. In the dark moments that follow these losses, life can seem hopeless and unbearable.
Author Therèse Tappouni knows this journey all too well.
After suffering the devastating loss of her eleven-year-old son, she ultimately came to the realization that it is possible to not only heal from grief, but to find gifts from the deepest places of despair.
The Gifts of Grief: Finding the Light in the Darkness of Loss explores the grieving process and examines new ways to heal from the inside out. Couched in Tappouni's warm and comforting prose, and steeped in examples from her own experiences with deep loss, Therèse is able to walk the reader through the grieving process, while keeping in mind that the journey will be different for every person.
Complete with guided audio mediations and journaling exercises, The Gifts of Grief offers a compassionate path from loss and emptiness into wholeness, teaching not only how to survive grief, but also adapt and evolve new blessings from it as well.
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Email: ttappouni@aol.com Therese has been a voracious reader since early childhood. Heaven, as she saw it, was discovering the Carnegie Library in walking distance of her Springfield, Illinois home. Her father's sisters and her mother were readers and tale-tellers. Her two grandfathers were instrumental in forming her core value that everyone can hold their own beliefs and still get along, a central theme of her writing. Therese's connection to the Arab culture came from her Iraqi husband, whom she met in college, and his family. True to her reading code, as soon as they met she read everything she could on Iraq. When she opened a conversation with him based on her reading, he often said: Really? How do you know that? He spent his youth dreaming of America. She dove into Iraqi culture and cooking as if she was born to it. Their six children had an interesting old world/new world upbringing. The three boys and three girls revealed to her any life experiences she may have missed on her own. The death of her son, Michael, inspired this book, and is the model for the character of Mikhail. Therese teaches workshops on grief and inclusion, and spent her mid-years working at schools and child-leaning organizations. She is the author, with her daughters Mary and Catherine, of a book for young children titled Me and Green, a guide to small everyday things that can save the planet. Today, she is a Certified HeartMath(R) Trainer and Somatic Intuitive Training(TM) Certified Practitioner, with six books published and awards won in non-fiction, fiction and poetry. Her passionate belief is that all peoples can learn to be together through finding common interests. In recent years, she's found this to be more and more important. Therese is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators; The Society of American Poets; International Women's Writing Guild; International Coach Foundation; and Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781938289095 |
| ISBN 10 | 1938289099 |
| Title | The Gifts of Grief |
| Author | Therese Tappouni |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hierophant Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-04-15 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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