Bearing the Unbearable

A wise guide intimate, tender, and fierce reminding us what it means to fully love. This is a holy book, riddled with insight and compassion. It will bless all of us in our times of sorrow. --Francis Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief There are sentences in this luminous book that took my breath away. With penetrating insight and tender warmth, Dr. Jo meets the broken-hearted where we live: in an utterly transformed and transformational space. This is the secret potion I have been yearning for, offered from a brimming cup. --Mirabai Starr, author of Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation A truly remarkable book. --Robert D. Stolorow, author of Trauma and Human Existence An approach to grief that moves beyond platitudes and cliche. It offers a way to truly grow through grief that is not a moving beyond but is more of an organic composting and recycling of the soul. It offers hope for those who feel like their loss has disconnected themselves forever from humanity and the circle of life. There is something for everyone in this garden that will restore and rejuvenate. I would highly recommend this book! --Doug Bremner MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University, and author of The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg A wise guide--intimate, tender, and fierce--reminding us what it means to fully love. This is a holy book, riddled with insight and compassion. It will bless all of us in our times of sorrow. --Francis Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief There are sentences in this luminous book that took my breath away. With penetrating insight and tender warmth, Dr. Jo meets the broken-hearted where we live: in an utterly transformed and transformational space. This is the secret potion I have been yearning for, offered from a brimming cup. --Mirabai Starr, author of Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation A truly remarkable book. --Robert D. Stolorow, author of Trauma and Human Existence An approach to grief that moves beyond platitudes and cliche. It offers a way to truly grow through grief that is not a moving beyond but is more of an organic composting and recycling of the soul. It offers hope for those who feel like their loss has disconnected themselves forever from humanity and the circle of life. There is something for everyone in this garden that will restore and rejuvenate. I would highly recommend this book! --Doug Bremner MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University, and author of The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg -A wise guide--intimate, tender, and fierce--reminding us what it means to fully love. This is a holy book, riddled with insight and compassion. It will bless all of us in our times of sorrow.---Francis Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief -There are sentences in this luminous book that took my breath away. With penetrating insight and tender warmth, Dr. Jo meets the broken-hearted where we live: in an utterly transformed and transformational space. This is the secret potion I have been yearning for, offered from a brimming cup.---Mirabai Starr, author of Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation -A truly remarkable book.---Robert D. Stolorow, author of Trauma and Human Existence -An approach to grief that moves beyond platitudes and cliche. It offers a way to truly grow through grief that is not a moving beyond but is more of an organic composting and recycling of the soul. It offers hope for those who feel like their loss has disconnected themselves forever from humanity and the circle of life. There is something for everyone in this garden that will restore and rejuvenate. I would highly recommend this book!---Doug Bremner MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University, and author of The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg At a time when even the most normal of human experiences, such as grief and suffering, are being pathologized and medicated by a bio-psychiatric industry, Bearing the Unbearable is an honest and courageous examination of the most common of human experiences...Dr. Cacciatore's powerful book doesn't stop with delineating the process of grief. [It] shows grieving human beings how to reclaim the process as normal and sacred, and how to insist on defining the process for themselves, which leads to powerful healing...This book will become a staple in my practice, and as well as at Warfighter ADVANCE programs. --Mary Neal Vieten, PhD, ABPP, Executive Director, WARFIGHTER ADVANCE In this poignant, heartrending, and heart-lifting book, Joannne Cacciatore teaches how loss is transformed to peace, devastating grief to active and practical love. Beautifully, beautifully written, Bearing the Unbearable is for all those who have grieved, will grieve, or support others through bereavement. --Gabor Mate MD, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts -At a time when even the most normal of human experiences, such as grief and suffering, are being pathologized and medicated by a bio-psychiatric industry, Bearing the Unbearable is an honest and courageous examination of the most common of human experiences...Dr. Cacciatore's powerful book doesn't stop with delineating the process of grief. [It] shows grieving human beings how to reclaim the process as normal and sacred, and how to insist on defining the process for themselves, which leads to powerful healing...This book will become a staple in my practice, and as well as at Warfighter ADVANCE programs.---Mary Neal Vieten, PhD, ABPP, Executive Director, WARFIGHTER ADVANCE -Bearing the Unbearable is an experience more than a book. In recounting many cases from her extraordinary therapy practice devoted to helping people who are undergoing severe and traumatic grief, the book offers the reader an experience that--like grief itself--is painful but for which one will be deeply grateful afterwards. Cacciatore's amazing book shows us through its many emotionally gripping examples-guaranteed to trigger readers' own lurking tears--much that is novel and illuminating about the ineffable depth and labyrinthine nature of intense grief.---Dr. Jerome Wakefield, DSW, PhD, Professor, NYU School of Medicine and author of The Loss of Sadness -In this poignant, heartrending, and heart-lifting book, Joannne Cacciatore teaches how loss is transformed to peace, devastating grief to active and practical love. Beautifully, beautifully written, Bearing the Unbearable is for all those who have grieved, will grieve, or support others through bereavement.---Gabor Mate MD, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts Bearing the Unbearable is an experience more than a book. In recounting many cases from her extraordinary therapy practice devoted to helping people who are undergoing severe and traumatic grief, the book offers the reader an experience that--like grief itself--is painful but for which one will be deeply grateful afterwards. Cacciatore's amazing book shows us through its many emotionally gripping examples-guaranteed to trigger readers' own lurking tears--much that is novel and illuminating about the ineffable depth and labyrinthine nature of intense grief. --Dr. Jerome Wakefield, DSW, PhD, Professor, NYU School of Medicine and author of The Loss of Sadness Bearing the Unbearableis an experience more than a book. In recounting many cases from her extraordinary therapy practice devoted to helping people who are undergoing severe and traumatic grief, the book offers the reader an experience that like grief itself is painful but for which one will be deeply grateful afterwards. Cacciatore s amazing book shows us through its many emotionally gripping examples guaranteed to trigger readers own lurking tears much that is novel and illuminating about the ineffable depth and labyrinthine nature of intense grief. --Dr. Jerome Wakefield, DSW, PhD, Professor, NYU School of Medicine and author of The Loss of Sadness In this poignant, heartrending, and heart-lifting book, Joannne Cacciatore teaches how loss is transformed to peace, devastating grief to active and practical love. Beautifully, beautifully written, Bearing the Unbearable is for all those who have grieved, will grieve, or support others through bereavement. --Gabor Mate MD, author of When The Body Says No: Exploring The Stress-Disease Connection