The Infinite Thread
Healing Relationships Beyond Loss
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2011
224 pages
978-1-4516-4366-4 (ISBN)
Description
The loss we feel when a loved one dies is profound, often accompanied by regret for all that we didn't say or do. Such regret can hinder emotional growth and create wounds that affect all other aspects of our lives. But loss doesn't necessarily mean the end of a connection with a loved one. In fact, it can open the doors to a unique relationship that offers intimacy, healing, and renewal.
In The Infinite Thread, author Alexandra Kennedy helps us deal with loss in a powerful new way: by using active imagination, letters, and inner dialogue to re-create and heal past relationships. In doing so, we also amend the often-strained ties with those still living.
The Infinite Thread strips away the veils of mystery surrounding death and transcends preconceptions about death and dying. Rich with opportunities for reflection, it brings enormous comfort to anyone who has ever lost a loved one or been faced with their own mortality.
In The Infinite Thread, author Alexandra Kennedy helps us deal with loss in a powerful new way: by using active imagination, letters, and inner dialogue to re-create and heal past relationships. In doing so, we also amend the often-strained ties with those still living.
The Infinite Thread strips away the veils of mystery surrounding death and transcends preconceptions about death and dying. Rich with opportunities for reflection, it brings enormous comfort to anyone who has ever lost a loved one or been faced with their own mortality.
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Alexandra Kennedy, MA, is the author of Losing a Parent and has been a licensed psychotherapist in private practice for twenty-five years. She is a faculty member at the University of California Santa Cruz Extension and has served on the faculty of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, where she offered a yearly graduate course on death, dying, and grieving. Her work has been featured in USA Today, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Examiner, Boston Herald, Yoga Journal, and Mothering magazine.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Looking Within
- Chapter 1. The Living Presence within You
- Part Two: Reaching Within
- Chapter 2. Communicating with One Who Is Dying
- Chapter 3. Dreaming of One Who Has Died
- Chapter 4. Letters: Beginning a Correspondence
- Chapter 5. Dialogues
- Going Where They Take You
- Chapter 6. Connecting through Imagery
- Part Three: Reaching Outward
- Chapter 7. Family Communication after a Death
- Chapter 8. Reaching Your Living Partner
- Chapter 9. Reaching Your Living Children
- Chapter 10. Reaching Your Living Friends
- Chapter 11. Healing Grief Passed Down through Generations
- Chapter 12. Healing Daily Losses
- Epilogue
- Suggestions for Grieving and Exercises for Healing Relationships beyond Loss
- Bibliography
- About the Author
