Title: Mourning: The Journey from Grief to Healing  Author: Patrick M. Del Zoppo, PhD, CAS  ISBN: 0-8189-0737-1  Paperback: xxvi + 46 pp.  Price: $3.95 + shipping  To Order call:  1 800-343-ALBA (2522)  Please have your Master  or Visa card ready

Faith in God, rest, prayer, activity and recreation are just a few of the many important elements which move the healing process along during the period of mourning. Acknowledging the fact of the loss, coming to accept it and to understand it at least in part, entering into the pain of grief and expressing it to others are some of the milestones along the journey from grief to healing. "Joy shared is joy increased; grief shared is grief diminished." This is the thread which runs throughout this little book which is filled with compassion, understanding, empathy and valuable information. Ideal for one who is in mourning, who is facing the death of a loved one, or who must minister to those who have undergone a loss.

 

Patrick M. Del Zoppo, PhD, CAS, is a Clinical Thanatologist and national leader in the Bereavement Ministry. He is the recipient of the 1993 Mabel Garey award from the National Catholic Ministry to the Bereaved for his significant contributions to Bereavement Ministry in the Catholic Church in the United States. An international educator in loss and thanatology, he is the Director of Bereavement Services for the Archdiocese of New York and served for a time as the designer/host of Pastoral Bereavement Counseling for the Catholic Telecommunications Network of America.  Reviews "Mourning talks about grief as the "journey to healing" that it is; but it also challenges us, as the bereaved, to mourn. Healing comes through mourning, through the "saying yes" to our feelings in healthy (and occasionally not-so-healthy) outpourings. As Patrick says at the very outset, "To mourn is to sing with the dying and to be healed by the song and by the death. To mourn is to move forward and to look back. To mourn is to say 'Yes!'" I say -- no, I shout -- a definite YES to this very fine booklet, and know it will truly be the gift that it is intended to be to all who have it for their journey through grief." --Richard B. Gilbert in Connections - Spiritual Links  "How to handle the healing of grief: New title by nationally-known bereavement expert (service director, NY Archdiocese), Mourning deals with mourning as a process leading to healing following the death of a loved one. Written for those in mourning, but helpful in a step-by-step evaluation of the process for all in pastoral or health-related counseling. Compiled as a 48-page booklet with glossy cover and 26 page Introduction, it deals with 6 phases of grief plus looks at Loss as an Agent for Change (with scriptural reference), and includes notes plus two pages of helpful resources (organizations, publications, etc.)." --Crux of the News  "In this very thorough analysis of mourning, the author discusses six stages of grief: numbness and disbelief, alarm and anxiety, confrontation, emotional upheaval, encountering the feelings of grief, and recovery." --Regina Siegfried, ASC in Review for Religious    Top of Page