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Before and After Loss
Winner of the Best Book Award ( Death & Dying) by American Book Fest
In Before and After Loss, neurologist Dr. Lisa M. Shulman describes a personal story of loss and her journey to understand the science behind the mind-altering experience of grief. Part memoir, part creative nonfiction, part account of scientific discovery, this moving book combines Shulman's perspectives as an expert in brain science and a keen observer of behavior with her experience as a clinician, a caregiver, and a widow. Drawing on the latest studies about grief and its effects, she explains what scientists know about how the mind, brain, and body respond and heal following traumatic loss. She also traces the interface between the experience of profound loss and the search for emotional restoration.
Combining the science of emotional trauma with concrete psychological techniques― including dream interpretation, journaling, mindfulness exercises, and meditation―Shulman's frank and empathetic account will help readers regain their emotional balance by navigating the passage from profound sorrow to healing and growth.
In Before and After Loss, neurologist Dr. Lisa M. Shulman describes a personal story of loss and her journey to understand the science behind the mind-altering experience of grief. Part memoir, part creative nonfiction, part account of scientific discovery, this moving book combines Shulman's perspectives as an expert in brain science and a keen observer of behavior with her experience as a clinician, a caregiver, and a widow. Drawing on the latest studies about grief and its effects, she explains what scientists know about how the mind, brain, and body respond and heal following traumatic loss. She also traces the interface between the experience of profound loss and the search for emotional restoration.
Combining the science of emotional trauma with concrete psychological techniques― including dream interpretation, journaling, mindfulness exercises, and meditation―Shulman's frank and empathetic account will help readers regain their emotional balance by navigating the passage from profound sorrow to healing and growth.
184 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 14, 2018
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June 18, 2025
This made me ugly-weep in public. My heart went out to the author and I felt that the discussion was very constructive. There is lot a very good advice for the bereaved and the POV and experience and training of the author were definitely valuable and interesting. But, as a book it was trying to do a lot of things all at the same time, and I think it weakened some of it. It didnt help that the kindle edition I was reading it through was formated awfully (changes of font and line mid paragraph, chapters mis indexed, footnotes all over the place).
January 22, 2019
Well that sure was interesting
Well I am not quite sure that the book gave me a lot of hope. Well it was honest and open and made sense but it wasn’t a rainbow filled happy ending.
Well I am not quite sure that the book gave me a lot of hope. Well it was honest and open and made sense but it wasn’t a rainbow filled happy ending.
January 13, 2026
interesting a little more medical in how the brain changes during grief and what we can do to help ourselves through it all. not a light easy read
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