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Sweet Sorrow: Finding Enduring Wholeness after Loss and Grief Hardcover – September 8, 2018
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Few of us know how to navigate the territory of traumatic loss successfully. Sweet Sorrow shows how we can respond and grow stronger from loss and suffering. Written by psychologist and certified bereavement trauma specialist Dr. Sherry Cormier, Sweet Sorrow chronicles the decade following the loss of her husband, father, mother, and only sibling.
This carefully considered work provides perspective on grief and healing over time. Its longer-term approach allows readers to have a more complete and accurate picture of the oscillations of grief over time. The book describes not only the immediate agony of the author's losses, but also the process of starting over and making a successful new life as a single person full of hope and joy.
Sweet Sorrow combines the author's psychological expertise and clinical experience with the compelling art of memoir to illuminate the surprising ways in which loss survivors can grow and even thrive to achieve wholeness after heartbreaking, traumatic losses. Using findings from post-traumatic growth, as well as evidence-based psychological approaches, Sweet Sorrow illustrates through story and example:
- Ways for grief survivors to start over
- Tools to manage chaos and stress
- How to let go, and to heal with new strategies and re-storying
- Resources and recommendations for self-care
- Tips and suggestions to respond creatively and helpfully to those around us suffering loss
Ultimately, Sweet Sorrow is a book of inspiration intended to accompany readers through the processes of loss and grief much like a helpful Sherpa might guide a lost traveler. The author provides critical insight into the journey of death as experienced by a spouse.
Praise for Sweet Sorrow
"A tender narrative and a superb primer on helping others heal in one absorbing book!
-John C. Norcross, PhD, author of Self-Help That Works and Changeology
"Sherry Cormier takes us through her heart-breaking loss, then gifts us with a reassuring path back to fulfillment"-Patricia Love, psychotherapist and author
"Sweet Sorrow...can help provide comfort to many who ask 'why did this happen to me.'"
-Ed Jacobs, PhD
"An honest, moving, informative, and methodically crafted text that grips the reader's heart, spirit, and mind."
-Katarzyna Małecka, author of Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell
Order your Kindle, paperback or hardcover copy of Sweet Sorrow today and you too can begin to find enduring wholeness after loss and grief.
- Print length184 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication dateSeptember 8, 2018
- Dimensions6.24 x 0.77 x 9.33 inches
- ISBN-101538114178
- ISBN-13978-1538114179
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The literature is filled with personal memoirs of loss and professional texts on treating grief, but Cormier’s Sweet Sorrow singularly combines both in navigating traumatic loss in a realistic and growthful way. Particularly helpful are the information about grief oscillations over time, the contemplative questions, and her clinical suggestions on responding to grievers. A tender narrative AND a superb primer on helping others heal in one absorbing book! -- John C. Norcross, PhD, ABPP, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Scranton, and author of “Self-Help That Works” and “Changeology”
Sherry Cormier takes us through her heart-breaking loss, then gifts us with a reassuring path back to fulfillment. You will be drawn in by her memoir, enlightened by her wisdom, inspired by her attention to detail and research. Rewards of this book are both personal and professional. -- Patricia Love, Psychotherapist and Author
Sweet Sorrow is very appropriately titled; Sherry Cormier does a marvelous job sharing in such a warm, tender manner her journey through her husband’s illness, death, grief and recovery. This book can help provide comfort to many who ask “why did this happen to me.” Sherry uniquely combines the writings of leading experts in the area of grief and spirituality with her own experiences of healing. Sweet Sorrow will validate many common and unusual experiences of those who are grieving and offers the reader many processes that help with finding balance and joy again. -- Ed Jacobs, Ph.D., Professor of Counseling, West Virginia University, Director, Impact Therapy Associates
An account of hope, promise, and resilience, Sweet Sorrow allows readers to witness a beautiful love story and a poignant grief journey. Beyond her authentic account of her own grief, Cormier draws upon her background as a therapist and studies in the field to guide readers through rebuilding their lives. I heartily endorse this book for anyone striving to support someone who is grieving and for those in the throes of deep overwhelming grief. The message of hope and resilience is palpable.
-- Anne H. Baker, Director of Adult Bereavement Services & Training Hospice Caring Inc.An honest, moving, informative, and methodically crafted text that grips the reader’s heart, spirit, and mind. Sherry Cormier’s Sweet Sorrow navigates the reader through the terrain of loss and grief based on the author’s personal experience, psychological expertise, and clinical literature. A memoir, self-help book, and modern-day almanac brimming with inspirational quotes and practical tips that will resonate with grieving and non-grieving readers. -- Katarzyna Malecka, grief scholar and author of "Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell"
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- Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (September 8, 2018)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 184 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1538114178
- ISBN-13 : 978-1538114179
- Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.24 x 0.77 x 9.33 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #706,299 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #641 in Coping with Suicide Grief
- #1,854 in Grief & Bereavement
- #1,945 in Love & Loss
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About the author
Sherry Cormier was born in Philadelphia and grew up in the midwest in Kansas. After completing her graduate work at Purdue, she accepted faculty positions at the University of Tennessee and West Virginia University. Notably, perhaps, all of these universities have terrific collegiate sports programs, contributing to the fact she is a bit of a radical sports fan when rooting for her favs!
Sherry is a licensed psychologist, a certified bereavement trauma specialist, and a professor emerita. She is the author of several counseling psychology textbooks and has produced, in conjunction with Dr Cynthia Osborn and Kent State Teleproductions, a number of training films in the areas of group counseling, helping skills, self-care, ethics, and substance use and addictions, for Cengage Publishers.
Currently Sherry lives on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland where she enjoys kayaking and sailing.
See also www.sherrycormierauthor.com
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Every once in a while you find an unusually helpful discovey that is very useful in dealing with a difficult life problem. My wife of 29 years recently passed away and I felt that I needed to get a better sense of what my feelings and expectations were about. I had two previous wives who passed away, but that was a long time ago. Now, at age 85, everything seemed to be much different.
I began reading extensively and fortunately found a reference that was the right book for me, at the
right time: Sweet Sorrow. Dr. Sherry Cormier has assembled a narrative that clearly expressed the ups
and downs that we all know and that we had to deal with our loved one during the process that eventuated in the painful loss. She writes in a manner that makes you feel as if she was talking directly
to you. Her writing style is pleasurable and easy to read and absorb.
She references extensively and appropriately quotes of many wise individuals, like Joseph Campbell who
noted that "we must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us". The are many other exceptional references, one being Frday's Laws by Dr Paul J. Friday. In his list of
"Laws", the final conclusion is powerful: "the only things that lasts forever is -NOW".
There is so much more, which makes it definitely worthwhile reading.
I believe that the author covers many of the issues that we all experience over a lifetime, but she leaves us with an uplifting and lasting hope for life and the future.
Paul G. Cohen, M.D.