Klein - Embracing Life After Loss: a Gentle Guide for Growing through Grief

Praise for
Embracing Life After Loss by Allen Klein

Serendipitously, I was asked to review Allen Kleins book Embracing Life After Loss directly following my mothers passing. Reading this book has been a gift to me during this difficult transition. As the sting of loss begins to wane, the words in this wonderful book continue to resonate in my heart and in my healing. This book does the impossibleit turns the dark into something beautiful. This is a moving, provocative book about life, death, and most importantly, per spective.

Joseph J. Luciani, author of Self-Coaching: The Powerful Program to Beat Anxiety & Depression

If life sometimes feels like a bucket full of small dark stones, Allen Kleins insights are like bright pennies waiting to be found. This collection of brief sermons on grief and recovery can help turn fear into forgiveness, wounds into wisdom, and losses into laughter.

Stephen Kiernan, author of L ast Rights

This book is a wonderful companion in your darkest hours. It feels like a warm, nourishing hug from a dear and loving friend. It will soothe your heart and warm your soul. It will help you to find that sacred place within you that is never lost and never changesyour spiritual heart, your soul, which can be gracefully awakened through the mystical, transformational, holy experience of laughter.

John E. Welshons, author of When Prayers Aren t Answered

Like a dear friend, this beautiful book takes us by the hand and walks us through the stages of loss and recovery. Allen Klein has inspired us all to define ourselves, not by our grief, but by our joy.

Susan Sparks, Pastor, author of Laugh Your Wa y to Grace

This is an easy-to-read, compassionate, and useful book for dealing with loss and grief. Allen Klein addresses different aspects of the grieving process, all of which speak to the heart of what it is to deal with and recover from loss. This is a wonderful addition to the current literature on grief and would make a wonderful condole nce gift.

Judy Tatelbaum, author of The Courage to Grieve

Raising Lazarus from the dead is less miraculous than raising ourselves from the loss of a loved one. Allen Klein, invoking his decades of experience lightening the load of grief offers an unexpected grace, a slight levitation of the heart, into the healing process.

Stephen Levine, author of A Ye ar to Live

With great love and humor, Allen Klein shares his wisdom, wisdom which shows us the path to healing the wounds uncovered by our grief, wisdom that he has clearly earned through his own deep practice. He walks the walk. We are all grieving. Allen shows us the way, as Rumi says, to use grief as the garden of co mpassion.

Dale Borglum, Executive Director of the Living/Dyi ng Project

Klein has written a poignant and easily readable guide to the grieving process based on his personal and professional experiences. Grieving people will find some solace and professionals will gain insight from someone who has been on both sides of grieving and helping the bereaved.

Stephen R. Connor, author of
Hospice and Palliative Care: The Essen tial Guide

As a hospital chaplain I witnessed the unwelcome burden that grief added to a persons life. In his book, Allen Klein gives a realistic and sensitive vision that will sustain the hope necessary for griefs journey.

E. T. (CY) Eberhart, author of In the Presenc e of Humor

Whewwhat a book! Allen sings a simple song: embrace life, remember the joy, and find gratitude in knowing you have be en loved .

Darcie D. Sims, Director,
American Grief Academy and Grief Inc.

Embracing Life After Loss is a great gift to bereaved individuals. Klein offers sound wisdom, based on experience. He speaks here from the heartwith both humor and co mpassion.

Kenneth J. Doka, Co nsultant,
The Hospice Foundation of America

Allen Kleins new book, Embracing Life After Loss , is touching, informative, and heartwarming. Allens ability to find the perfect quotations over the years adds to the lovely journaling in this treasure. A must for anyone and everyone!

Ester Leutenberg, coauthor of GriefWork; Healing from Loss

Allen Klein shows his readers how to find the joy and laughter that continues even after the loss of a loved one. Read this book and begin your own transformation from grie f to joy.

Nancy Weil, Director of Bereavement Support, Catholic Cemeteries

Allen Klein has just written the handbook on how to cope with suffering. This book has all the tools you need to bounce back from loss of any kind.

Steve Rizzo, author of Becoming A H umor Being

Allen Klein has such a beautiful perspective! His book is an important, authentic, and liberating look at how we can move through loss with compassion, humor, and peace. If youre dealing with a loss of any kind, this book will support you in your journey.

Mike Robbins, author of Be Yourself,
Everyone Else is Alr eady Taken

Allen Klein is a counselor, a philosopher, a theologian. His pain, from losing his young wife, and his healing, from moving beyond her death, are evident in every word he writes. In easy-to-take doses, he offers practical advice on seeing the light in the darkest of times. He shares the secret that survivorsof everything from cancer to the Holocausthave learned.

Steve Lipman, author of Laught er in Hell

There are very few books that everyone can identify with and benefit from. This is one of those books. Weve all experienced a loss that leaves us dispirited and adrift. Embracing Life After Loss recognizes that even on hallowed ground, we lose our footing and our bearings. Allen Klein encourages us to find our way and teaches us the five stages of living after loss, so that we can not only survive, but thrive, enjoy, and embrace o ur lives.

Alan Gettis, author of Its All Part of t he Dance:
Finding Happiness in an Upside Down World

Kleins lucid writings make compelling connections with psychology, religion, history, philosophy, and good ol common sense. His personal experiences, clinical examples, and delightful humor is like viewing a trapeze artist who lets go of one rope, and gracefully takes hold of another, without a misstep. This is a penetrating treasure trove of profound insights and skillfully blended construct ed tools.

Earl A. Grollman, author of
Living When a Loved On e Has Died

Embracing Life After Loss

Also by All en Klein:

You Cant R uin My Day
The Art of Livin g Joyfully
Change Your Life!
Having the Time of Your Life
Always Look on the B right Side
Wor ds of Love
Inspiration for a Lifetime
The Healing Powe r of Humor
The Courag e to Laugh
Secrets Kids KnowThat Adults Ou ghta Learn
L.A.U.G.H.: Using Humor and Play to Help Cl ients Cope

Embracing Life After Loss

A Gentle Guide for Growing Through Grief

Allen Klein

Foreword by Gloria Horsley, PhD,
President and cofounder of Open to Hope

Mango Publishing
Coral Gables

Copyright 2019 Allen Klein

Published by Mango Publishing Group, a division of Mango Media Inc.

Cover Design: Jermaine Lau

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Layout & Design: Roberto Nez

Lyrics from the song Youre There, lyrics by Alix Korey, music by David Friedman, MIDDER Music Publishing, Inc. Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved.

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