The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Weller, Francis

"It blew me away. I underlined things on nearly every page." --Anderson Cooper, All There Is The Wild Edge of Sorrow offers hope and healing for a profoundly fractured world--and a pathway home to the brightness, pains, and gifts of being alive. Introducing the 5 gates of grief, psychotherapist Francis Weller explores how we move through the waters of grief and loss in a culture so fundamentally detached from the needs of the soul. - The first gate recognizes--and invites us to accept--the painful truth that everything we love, we will lose. With this acceptance comes beauty and responsibility--and an openness into which we can pour the full love of our hearts. At the first gate, we meet the sorrow of losing a loved one; the grief of illness; and the unique and profound pains that accompany loss by suicide. - The second gate helps us uncover and tend to the places that have not known love the neglected pieces of our soul that need restoration and care. These "places" can be our secret