The Blessing of Sorrow: Turning Grief into Healing

by Ben Kamin

An empathetic look at the grieving process providing a path to acceptance and peace for those who must continue their life journey after a loved one dies. Tackling one of life’s greatest mysteries, Rabbi Ben Kamin examines the diverse ways we mourn the death of a loved one. Drawn from his forty-plus years of counseling the bereaved, Kamin shares stories filled with people from all walks of life to provide thoughtful insights on how we encounter and endure grief. Using his own experience of the heartbreaking loss of his father, he stresses the importance of not deferring the process of grieving at the risk of harming one’s physical, emotional, and spiritual health. An empathetic and simple spiritual guide that offers a path to acceptance and peace for those who must continue their life journey after a loved one dies.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology, Grief, Self Help

240 pages, Paperback

Published July 10, 2018

Reviews

[Graham · Rating 5 out of 5]

A nice book; it gave me a lot of comfort. The author is more in-depth with the subject and brings a spiritual angle to the subject matter which anyone, no matter their religious beliefs, will find helpful. He certainly knows all there is to know about death, loss and grief over a long and well-lived lifetime, and he peppers his chapters with various first-hand accounts of situations which reveal something of human nature and the correct or incorrect way to be. There are some touching moments here too as well as plenty of very human behaviour which gives this book a natural realism. It helped me.

[Audiobook Accomplice (Gillian) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Forever grateful that I listened to this at just the right time
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[Hecka · Rating 4 out of 5]

not sure how I'd take this book if I were freshly grieving. I do know a thing or two about the power in bereavement to motivate. that energy can be destructive or healing.
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