The AfterGrief, Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss by Edelman, Hope -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Epigraph Introduction: Getting Over Getting Over It Chapter One: The Story of Grief

Death, Dying, and the Echo That Spanned a Century What We Think about When We Think about Grief Mourning as “Work” We Were Going through a Stage

Chapter Two: Getting It Together

The Social Rules of Bereavement Saying Hullo Again The Children Who Led the Way Re-Membering the Departed

Chapter Three: Something New

New Grief: Here and Now A Model for Everyone What More Is New Grief? The Childhood Exception, Part One: Staggered Grief

Chapter Four: Old Grief: Recurrent and Resurgent

Cyclical Grief Sneak Attacks Resurrected Grief The Childhood Exception, Part 2: Developmental Grief

Chapter Five: New Old Grief: One-Time Transitions

Life Transitions: Maturational Grief Proxy Grief Age-Correspondence Events Next-Gen, Next-Level

Chapter Six: The Rings of Grief

Model Behavior The Rings of Grief

Chapter Seven: The Power of Story

A Story Takes Shape Testing and Telling

Chapter Eight: People, We Need to Talk (and Write, and Paint, and Perform)

The Cost of Silence The Good Kind of “Letting Go”

Chapter Nine: Six Exceptions in Search of a Narrative

Chapter Ten: Reauthoring Your Story of Loss

Snapshots in Time Stories in Motion The Story of Now Stories of Loss Are Also Stories of Lives

Chapter Eleven: Story Cracking: Getting from A to Z

Issues of Identity The Alphabet of Overlooked Events The Role of the Surviving Parent Dominos and ACEs Let’s Get Back to Christopher

Chapter Twelve: Story Mending: Finding Continuity

Two Kinds of Life Stories Two Things Can Be True The Continuous You: An Experiential Exercise

Epilogue: The Missing Elements of Grief Dedication Acknowledgments Bibliography Other Titles About the Author