Grief: The Universal Emotion of Loss

by Karla Kay

Overview

Karla brings to the surface a fresh understanding to grief and reveals a New Paradigm in the world of loss. From Karla's own tragedy of the sudden death of her husband and daughter she was thrust into the depths of her own nightmare; and when the expert advice, prescriptions and therapy fell short she began to examine the feelings, thoughts and emotions of her own grief process. Karla was inspired to share her vision for moving through the world of grief.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798886920796
Publisher:	Scriptor House
Publication date:	05/09/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	116
File size:	424 KB

About the Author

My life has been a spiritual journey through the shadowy emotions of grief, loss, and love. I was touched and inspired by watching hundreds take their last breath, including my parents through Hospice care. I experienced grief from a miscarriage, the loss of a home due to a recession, watching my sister give birth to her stillborn daughter and a car accident that took the life of my niece and brother n law. In August of 2003, I experienced a near-death experience when we were traveling home from a family vacation, a tire blew out and our SUV rolled several times, I crossed over with my husband and daughter who told me, "You can't stay here, it's not your time you have more to do." Part of my spiritual journey was examining the clusters and layers of my own grief so that I could move through loss and surrender to a life of unconditional love and support.

Read an Excerpt

In some way I have always felt like I was surrounded by death. Perhaps it began for me with my mother losing her little brother to malnutrition in the Great Depression or when she was widowed at the young age of thirty-two. Possibly it began as an unborn child when my mother had thoughts of suicide. I remember when I was a little girl my parents taking in my great Aunt Ruby and my grandmother to care for them in their last days, they both died in our home, and I recall going to a mortuary as a child and playing with toys as my mother set my great Aunt Ruby’s hair.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Part One The Vacuum of Grief
Grief Transcends Everything
Grief is Unexpected
A Natural Human Condition
Grief is a Place Not a Time
Between Two Worlds

Part Two The Ultimate Emotional Disabler
The Quicksand of Loss
Suffering in Silence
Comfort in Isolation
The Prison of If Only
The Freedom of Surrender

Part Three The Journey
Bedrock
The First Step
The Upside of Resistance
Asking for Help
Doing One Thing
Risking Life

Part Four The Patterns of Grief
The Old Paradigm
The New Paradigm
The Seven Clusters of Grief
The Eleven Layers of Grief

Part Five The Emotional Anatomy of Grief
The Difference Between Feeling and Emotion
Surrounded by Memories
Holding on to Our Emotions
Consciously Releasing our Emotions

Part Six A Grieving World
The Anguish of the World
The Torment of our Actions
Our Secret World of Grief
Healing our Thoughts
The Perfect Time and Place

Part Seven Tomorrow
A New Day
A New You
A New World