Challenging the firmly held belief that we must brave our circumstances and endure life's crises, You Don't Have to Suffer emphasizes that while hurt is inevitable in life, suffering is not. The author explains that we can consciously choose how and how much we suffer over our own experiences and tragedies. We can experience our losses, hardships, and disappointments and let go of them. We learn to apply these insights to our separation from others, recovery from grief, relationships with our parents and children, and our ...
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Challenging the firmly held belief that we must brave our circumstances and endure life's crises, You Don't Have to Suffer emphasizes that while hurt is inevitable in life, suffering is not. The author explains that we can consciously choose how and how much we suffer over our own experiences and tragedies. We can experience our losses, hardships, and disappointments and let go of them. We learn to apply these insights to our separation from others, recovery from grief, relationships with our parents and children, and our own bodies. Rather than "pour salt in our wounds"-by dramatizing, personalizing, and romanticizing events, living in the past, going it alone, and denying our needs-Judy Tatelbaum shows us how to free ourselves and see life not as a "predicament" but as a challenge and a gift. You Don't Have to Suffer takes readers through the various trials and tribulations of how we suffer, why we choose to continue to suffer, and ultimately, how we can raise ourselves above life's challenges.
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This is a wonderful book for anyone who has ever grieved and felt loss in the process.
JeanMarie
Aug 14, 2009
Less than realistic
I read the Courage to Grieve by the same author and felt I coud benefit from another volume by her. I was mistaken.
The first book offered more practical information for the difficult process of grieving, this book I felt offered platitudes instead of procedure or things to attempt in allevating suffering. Yes, of course I or anyone can change my/their mind, but when one is suffering - easier said than done - is the only appropriate phrase. Explanations of how to get out from under is what suffering people need and want.
Maybe this book is not for those suffering at all, but those that have mastered any residual suffering that might have been, so they can be happy right alongside Judy. For that is what I felt she was trying to portray, her own found happiness.
