14 Best mental health books like Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Joanne Cacciatore

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Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

By: Joanne Cacciatore

4.42

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

If you love, you will grieve—and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. Dr.…

"Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning "to move through" and "to move out." Our emotions move in us, move through us and move between us. And when we allow them to move freely, they change, perhaps scarcely and perhaps gradually - but inevitably. This is grief's piercing message: there is no way around - the only way is through."

-Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

"Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning "to move through" and "to move out". Our emotions move in us, move through us and move between us.And when we allows them to move freely, they change, perhaps scarcely and perhaps gradually - but inevitably. This is grief's most piercing message: there is no way arounf - the only way in through."

-Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

If you liked the mental health plot in Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Joanne Cacciatore , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents

By: Alexander Levy

4.12

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This "wise and caring book" ( Library Journal ) is a guide to understanding and coping with grief a… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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2. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

By: Francis Weller , Michael Lerner

4.40

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of … read more

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  • health
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Grief keeps the heart flexible, fluid, and open to others."

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"Ritual is able to hold the long-discarded shards of our stories and make them whole again. It has the strength and elasticity to contain what we cannot contain on our own, what we cannot face in soli…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for wh…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"To alter the amnesia of our times, we must be willing to look into the face of the loss and keep it nearby. In this way, we may be able to honor the losses and live our lives as carriers of their unf…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

Cover of On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler

3. On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , David Kessler

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ten years after the death of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, this commemorative edition of her final book co… read more

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  • personal development
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • self help

4. I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One

By: Brook Noel , None

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Now there is a hand to hold... Each year about eight million Americans suffer the death of a close … read more

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5. Permission to Mourn: A New Way to Do Grief

By: None

3.63

Format: 56 pages,

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Cover of Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully by Julie McFadden

6. Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully

By: Julie McFadden

4.50

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What if we didn’t consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embr… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 18 Assurances on Grief by Clare Mackintosh

7. I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 18 Assurances on Grief

By: Clare Mackintosh

4.56

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

New York Times and international bestselling mystery author Clare Mackintosh makes her nonfiction d… read more

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  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Joanne Cacciatore

8. Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

By: Joanne Cacciatore

4.42

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

If you love, you will grieve—and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. Dr.… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Cacciatore's Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief book and Joanne Cacciatore's Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

  • personal development
  • memoir
  • health
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning …"

-Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

"Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning …"

-Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

Cover of Grief Is Love: Living with Loss by Marisa Renee Lee

9. Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

By: Marisa Renee Lee

4.17

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Author Marisa Renee Lee reveals that healing does not mean moving on after losing a loved one heali… read more

Similar categories in Marisa Renee Lee's Grief Is Love: Living with Loss book and Joanne Cacciatore's Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

  • memoir
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss by Mary-Frances O'Connor

10. The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

By: Mary-Frances O'Connor

4.19

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in … read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and be…"

-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

"Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your unde…"

-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

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11. Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

By: Sallie Tisdale

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale explores all the heartbreaking, … read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"We share a grand social agreement about mortality. We choose not to notice, if we can."

-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

"Our ideals about a so-called good death are constricting. Death is not something at which we succeed or fail, something to achieve. Life and death are not possessions."

-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

"…grief is not a disease to be cured. Grief is a wound, not unlike that from a knife or a bludgeon. The injury will heal in time leaving a scar but the tissue is never quite the same. One moves forwar…"

-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

Cover of Welcome to the Grief Club: Because You Don't Have to Go Through It Alone by Janine Kwoh

12. Welcome to the Grief Club: Because You Don't Have to Go Through It Alone

By: Janine Kwoh

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the club that no one ever wants to join but so many of us end up needing. We’re so sorry… read more

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  • health
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler

13. Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

By: David Kessler

4.43

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler—an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth K… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir by Meghan Riordan Jarvis

14. End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more

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  • memoir
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"

-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

Cover of Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss by Gina Moffa

15. Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss

By: Gina Moffa

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Licensed grief and trauma therapist Gina Moffa illuminates a non-linear path through grief, with to… read more

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  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Resilient Grieving: How to Find Your Way Through a Devastating Loss by Lucy Hone

16. Resilient Grieving: How to Find Your Way Through a Devastating Loss

By: Lucy Hone

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Resilient Grieving offers an empowering alternative to the five stages of grief―and makes clear our… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss by Claire Bidwell Smith

17. Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss

By: Claire Bidwell Smith

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

With this groundbreaking book, discover the critical connections between anxiety and grief—and lear… read more

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  • health
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • death
  • nonfiction
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Cover of Before and After Loss: A Neurologist's Perspective on Loss, Grief, and Our Brain (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) by Lisa M. Shulman

18. Before and After Loss: A Neurologist's Perspective on Loss, Grief, and Our Brain (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

By: Lisa M. Shulman

3.59

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

An expert neurologist explores how the mind, brain, and body respond and heal after her personal ex… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title by Leslie Gray Streeter

19. Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title

By: Leslie Gray Streeter

4.30

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

With her signature warmth and hilarity, Leslie Gray Streeter offers us a portrait of widowhood we h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • death
Cover of Conscious Grieving: A Transformative Approach to Healing from Loss by Claire Bidwell Smith

20. Conscious Grieving: A Transformative Approach to Healing from Loss

By: Claire Bidwell Smith

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An intimate guide to grieving that offers hope and healing within loss from one of the nation’s top… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help

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