Emily Thiroux Threatt - Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief A Comprehensive Guide to Reclaiming and Cultivating Joy and Carrying on in the Face of Loss (A Grief Recovery Handbook).

Praise for Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief

When youre hurting, Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief serves as a steadfast guide to ease your deep sorrow, open your heart to joy, and restore your life after loss. Emily Thiroux Threatt not only teaches you how to use love and joy to cope with loss, but also offers many practical tools and useful suggestions to rebuild your shattered world. From journaling to practicing gratitude to setting intentions, youll find support, understanding, and comfort whether youre new to grief or have been living with loss for years. Filled with insight, wisdom, and relatable stories, this resource shares everything you need to know to start living again with joy, meaning, and love af ter loss.

Chelsea Hanson , author of The Sudden Loss Survival Guide: 7 Essential Practices for Hea ling Grief

Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief is a deeply transformative book. Emilys poignant experiences of loss captivate the reader and takes them on a journey of inner strength and hope. She has distilled her lifetime of experiences into timeless wisdom and strategies to help others work through their own losses and to know they are not alone. As a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with over thirty-five years of experience, I can highly recommend this book to anyone who has or is facing challenging life circu mstances.

Tony Toneatto, PhD , professor at the University of Toron to, Canada

An insightful, riveting, thoughtful, and thoroughly engaging work on finding joy while experiencing grief. Inspired by her personal experience, Emily Thiroux Threatt generously and lovingly offers a practical yet spiritual guide for loving and living your way through a process no one welcomes but all must at some time traverse. Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief provides a wealth of reader-friendly support, guidance, encouragement and acknowledgement for implementation of its wise, workable recommendations for navigating through the loss of a loved one. Spiritual practice, common sense, and uncommon wisdom fill these pages. Letters and lists, stages and steps, principles and processes address, inspire, and motivate feeling how you feel, living in the moment, surviving and thrivingall in the midst of your grief. A wondrous and welcome addition to your library of living and loving through loss, this book is to be savored, treasured and kept close at hand and heart as needed, desired and required. A true gift to a grievi ng heart.

Rev. Greta Sesheta , 7-Pointer Star Ministries

We all know that grief is a long process, but I find few resources that are structured to walk us through that first year of loss in both an empathetic and a constructive way. Reading this book is like sitting down with Emily on her back porch in Maui, sipping tea and talking about life. While its so easy to self-isolate when grieving, this book might be the first friend you invite back in. Youll find kind, gentle words, as well as practical resources to help you on your journey.

Danica Thurber , certified therapeutic art life coach, Pro ject Grief

There are many reasons I love this book. Two of them are that it is easy to read and it contains many easy-to-do ideas to ease your loss. I wish it was available when my wife died. It wasnt then, but it is now. Dont miss a chance to get this heartfelt handbook of healing. It is a godsend.

Allen Klein , author of Embracing Life After Loss

Threatts personal experience with the deaths of husbands, parents, and other loved ones equipped her well to author this primer in navigating the territory of grief. She recognizes the uniqueness of each persons grief and offers a smorgasbord of practical suggestions to help people along their individual paths. This book is quite timely, given the current pandemic which has left immeasurable grief in its wake.

Brooke A. Brown, PhD , founder of N Keiki O Emalia, a nonprofit foundation which provides support to grieving children, teens, and their families to help them heal after the death of a loved one

Study this book and utilize its practices. It will support you in taking back your mind, heart, and life from merely coping and getting by after loss, to living and lovingfreely and unconditionallyas youre meant to.

Michael Bernard Beckwith , author of Life Visioning , The Answer Is You , and others

Emily Thiroux Threatts Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief vibrates with a gentleness and compassion that I didnt realize I needed until I read it. Thank yo u, Emily.

Laurie Kilmartin , comedian, author of Dead People Suck and writer for televisi ons Conan

A Comprehensive Guide to
Reclaiming and Cultivating Joy and
Carrying on in the Face of Loss

By Emily Thiroux Threatt

Mango Publishing

Coral Gables

Copyright 2021 by Emily Thiroux Threatt.
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Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief: A Comprehensive Guide to Reclaiming and Cultivating Joy and Carrying on in the Face of Loss

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication number: 2020949682
ISBN: (print) 978-1-64250-482-8, (ebook) 978-1-64250-483-5
BISAC category code SEL010000, SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement

Printed in the United States of America

To the memory of my husbands, the loves of my life, Jacqu es Thiroux
Rev. Ro n Threatt

and the memory of m y parents,
Orville and Ha zel Lofton

Table of Contents

Oftentimes, when a loved one dies, its sting can catch and hold us in a web of grief, loss, and even despair. As we tend to feel emotionally, soulfully, and even physically connected to our loved ones, these relationships often provide us with a profound sense of intimacy, comfort, and stasis, and can become the very foundation of who we believe we are. So, when they die, it can feel like pieces of our very identity have been snatched away, and the sense of loss is felt at the core of our being. Such feelings of loss often engender variations of the questions: Why did this have to happen? Why did they have to leave? Who am I without them in my life? How am I supposed to live without them? What will I do? Although such inquiries are typically borne of grief, when understood within a spiritual context, they can provide the opportunity for intense inner reflection and contemplation, and ultimately, trans formation.