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Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of us Have By Judith Viorst ( Free Press )
Release Date: 1998-01-05
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List Price: $15.00
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Product Description
The Bestselling Classic on Love, Loss, and Letting GoIn Necessary Losses, Judith Viorst turns her considerable talents to a serious and far-reaching subject: how we grow and change through the losses that are an inevitable and necessary part of life. She argues persuasively that through the loss of our mothers' protection, the loss of the impossible expectations we bring to relationships, the loss of our younger selves, and the loss of our loved ones through separation and death, we gain deeper perspective, true maturity, and fuller wisdom about life. She has written a book that is both life affirming and life changing.
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 Consoling and Comforting
Judith Viorst's book Necessary Losses has been by my bed for many years. I have read it 3 times but spread out for when I suffered one more loss. It is actually the only book that I have ever read that many times. Why? Because it is comforting, accurate, profound and thoughtful. Judith lets the reader see how many losses we will have to suffer in our lives and she helps us to be able to accept them. Her words have helped me to accept the death of my precious daughter, Katie Brant. I am in the field, a psychotherapist, and I needed consolation. We therapists must grieve for our losses as everyone else; no one is exempt. Thank you Judith, you are a gift.
Mary Jane Hurley Brant, M.S.,CGP, Author
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 Wow. Great Help
Wow, this is a Judith Viorst I never knew about.
She really does a good and thorough job of laying out the necessity of losing and gaining our lives as we develop. AND, where we go off the rails when the "necessary losses" do not take place.
This is a useful book for me as a counselor, a Pastor, a human in development.
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Good for everyone
Sometimes we wonder why life is so damn tough and sad and tragic. Well, this book doesn't help to answer those questions or to make it seem any better, but it does normalize all of those feelings, and it does explore all of the normal and necessary losses people experience in their lives. My therapist recommended it to me when my not-good-for-me boyfriend broke up with me and in turn, facilitated some of my personal growth and taught me to deal with some really hard feelings. I learned that losing him was necessary to my own well-being. This book is great for everyone.
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Awesome! ( elenasherwood )
The title caught my attention and I am so glad I bought it. Its one of the easiest books to read about moving on from losses and helps the reader understand that these losses are indeed, necessary. I have been a therapist for 15 years and have not come across such an engaging and practical book as this one. I myself am a slow reader but got through it in record time. Just do yourself and your loved ones a favor by reading this book!
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Necessary losses ( englishrose49 )
Great book, but you need to take a break now & then..its heavy going and CAN bring up your "stuff" my therapist recommended it...but even she admits that you need to read it slowly..and maybe a few times.It makes a lotta sense.
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