Only by giving full value to the pain of loss can one give full value to love, notes nationally recognized grief counselor Ted Menten in this handsome cloth journal whose pages are highlighted with moving quotes and verse. Menten, the acclaimed author of Gentle Closings, uses similar journals in his counseling work by assigning the bereaved to write three pages a day expressing their emotions of loss and pain as a means of moving toward acceptance. Ted Menten provided counseling for victims of the Oklahoma City bombing and the World Trade Center attack, and volunteers regularly to help terminally ill patients and their families.