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Editorial Review:
In this remarkable book, John Welshons weaves together his own personal awakening with those of others he’s counseled to create a deeply felt and beautifully expressed primer on dealing with grief. Grieving, says Welshons, offers a unique opportunity to develop deeper and fuller life experiences, to embrace pain in order to open the heart to joy. Written for those who have experienced any kind of loss — death, divorce, or disappointment — this book offers reasonable, reassuring thinking on dealing with the death of loved ones and ourselves, finding the inner gifts that promote healing, and much more. Awakening from Grief takes a rare and compelling positive look at a subject needlessly viewed as one of the most negative in life. This is a persuasive primer on drawing the joy out of grief.
Awakening from Grief: Finding the Way Back to Joy Reviews:
A must read 
2009-12-08 - My 29 year old daughter was murdered last year. I started reading anything I could find at the library just trying to figure out how I was going to survive this or if I really wanted to. After reading many books I found "Awakening from Grief" and couldn't put it down. It made me look at things in a different way and with a different understanding. This book has helped me more then I had ever imagined it would and I think just about anyone at whatever point you are in your life needs to read this book. I have since bought my own copy of it and am just finishing it for the second time. I am looking forward to reading more books by John Welshons
Life Changing
2009-11-12 - I am not one who has had many "light bulb moments in my life" but this book turned a switch in my life and allowed me to heal. Multiple losses (a foster child back to her parents, fires, deaths, job, and a divorce) left me paralyzed. Overwhelmed by the continuous waves of losses, my defense was to not feel. I finally understood that if I was to feel joy again, I had to let the losses "be real". To not feel loss was to also not feel joy and I have too much in my life to be joyful about.
One of the things I liked about this book is that it does not only address losses due to a death - there are so many losses one can experience - loss of self, loss of family, loss of home. I am grateful to feel myself again and to have learned how to integrate the losses into my life - they must surely are a part of me as much as the joys are.
I have bought this book for many friends and they have had positive results as well.
Received before expected date
2009-06-17 - This book arrived ahead of schedule, in good condition and the price was right! Thanks for making shopping so easy.
Awakening from Grief, Fining the Road Back to Joy
2008-06-21 -
John Welshons is an amazing author. His first book, Awakening from Grief, has brought so much peace and healing to my family, friends and myself. With every turn of a page, I felt more and more blessed to have met John and been touched by his gift of healing the soul.
THE FINEST BOOK I'VE READ ON THIS SUBJECT!
2007-09-15 - This book offers us a unique and precious opportunity to open our hearts to the fullness of our human predicament. John Welshons' approach is both incredibly loving, and - at times - breathtakingly honest. He is an extraordinarily gifted writer, a wonderful meditation teacher, and a wise and compassionate counselor. He seems to have a basic trust in our inherent inner strength and wisdom. He skillfully guides us to finding a place of quiet, loving contentment within ourselves in spite of all of the curve-balls life often throws at us. Through sharing some amazing experiences of loss and disappointment in his own life, he demonstrates - repeatedly - how to find real and lasting joy in spite of life's uncertainties. This book is a wonderfully accessible expression of the very same wisdom shared by Stephen Levine, Pema Chodron, and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross . . . in a somewhat less esoteric and more immediately comprehensible form. Awakening from Grief has changed my life. I hope you will allow it to work its magic on you!
