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Grief Is a Journey : Finding Your Path Through Loss by Dr. Kenneth J. Doka is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Grief Is a Journey : Finding Your Path Through Loss about?

In this "volume of rare sensitivity, penetrating understanding, and profound insights" (Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, author of Living When a Loved One Has Died ), Dr. Kenneth Doka explores a new, compassionate way to grieve, explaining that grief is not an illness to get over but an individual and ongoing journey. There is no "one-size-fits-all" way to cope with loss. The vital bonds that we form with those we love in life continue long after death—in very different ways. Grief Is a Journey is the first book to overturn prevailing, often judgmental, ideas about grief and replace them with a hopeful, inclusive, personalized, and research-backed approach. New science and studies behind Dr. Doka's teaching upend the dominant but incorrect view that grief proceeds by stages. Dr. Doka helps us realize that our experiences following a death are far more individual and much less predictable than the conventional "five stages" model would have us believe. Common patterns of experiencing and expressing grief still prevail, yet many other life changes accompany a primary loss. For example, the deaths of parents, even for adults, modify family patterns, change relationships, and alter old famil

Who reads Grief Is a Journey : Finding Your Path Through Loss?

Author

Dr. Kenneth J. Doka

Publisher

Atria Books

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476771489

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Self Help, Family & Relationships

Rating

4 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14