Dr. Bozarth Provides Us with Company and Comfort as We Journey Through Grief

Sandy, Oregon – WEBWIRE – Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Grief can be an awful journey, but it is a process each of us must inevitably go through in life. When it happens, what can we actually do to move through it without being overcome or paralyzed by it? Alla Renee Bozarth Ph.D. Offers comforting and useful assurance in “A Journey Through Grief: Gentle, Specific Help to Get You Through the Most Difficult Stages of Grieving,” an ever-relevant book meant for all.

With the author’s personal and first-hand experience with grief, “A Journey through Grief” is not a typical publication filled with practical and professional advice. Instead, it offers a shoulder for those who struggle to navigate their way through grief. It possesses the tone of empathy from a friend who is always ready to listen. It provides the readers with a sense of companionship as they also learn how to get through the process as it gradually unfolds.

In the first few pages, Dr. Bozarth speaks of real courage and its role in overcoming grief. She defines real courage as admitting we are appropriately frightened, even as we begin to be able to gather strength and help from both outside and within ourselves, to go ahead to do what needs to be done so that we may successfully make our way toward recovery. The book is so effective in elaborating these steps and meeting its genuine purpose that it can be widely used in psychotherapy, counseling, pastoral care, and self-help along with its larger, more detailed companion book, “Life is Goodbye/ Life is Hello: Grieving Well through All Kinds of Loss.”

There may be no easy way to get rid of the hollow feeling of grief, but you could start with this: Let “A Journey Through Grief” make you feel received and comforted as you mend your broken heart.

Get your copy https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Through-Grief-Specific-Difficult/dp/1568380372

A Journey Through Grief: Gentle, Specific Help to Get You Through the Most Difficult Stages of Grieving,”
Author: Alla Renee Bozarth Ph.D
Publisher: ‎ Hazelden Publishing; New edition (April 19, 1994)
Language: ‎ English
Paperback: ‎ 64 pages
About the Author

Dr. Alla Reneé Bozarth, poet and prose writer, therapist and Episcopal priest, was among the first eleven women ordained as Episcopal priests in 1974 in Philadelphia. Dr. Bozarth is author of numerous books, including Life is Goodbye/Life is Hello: Grieving Well through All Kinds of Loss, A Journey through Grief {Hazelden); The Book of Bliss, Accidental Wisdom, This is My Body~ Praying for Earth, Prayers from the Heart, Moving to the Edge of the World, This Mortal Marriage~ Poems of Love, Lament and Praise {iUniverse); Soulfire~Love Poems in Black and Gold (distributed by the author at bearblessings.com); Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey (Paulist Press 1978, revised edition Luramedia 1988, distributed by bearblessings.com); Stars in Your Bones: Emerging Signposts on Our Spiritual Journeys: poems by Alla Bozarth, color paintings by Julia Barkley and commentary by Terri Hawthorne [currently out of print]; and her scholarly book, The Word’s Body (University of Alabama Press 1979, University Press of America, Rowman and Littlefield 1997). She has a doctor of philosophy degree in performing arts from Northwestern University and a certificate in Gestalt psychotherapy from the Gestalt Training Center of San Diego. She has over forty years of professional experience as a soul caregiver-- soul-mending as a psychotherapist and soul-tending as a spiritual director. She has served as a pastoral counselor, consultant and mentor for individuals and groups.

Now retired from public ministry and travel for reasons of health, Dr. Bozarth’s home and sanctuary incorporate Wisdom House in Sandy, Oregon, where she devotes herself to writing as a way of harvesting the fruit of a life richly fertile from experience and formal learning, plumbing the depths of the human condition, exploring the breadth of Creation from Earth’s smallest creatures to the vast regions of the stars. Her poems have been put to music, painted, danced and performed by other artists, and are loved and used throughout the world.

Please visit her Web blogs to see hundreds of soul-healing poems, prayers and beautiful images from Nature. Her main blog~ Welcoming Light in the Wilderness (see her related book, At the Foot of the Mountain~ Nature and the Art of Soul Healing):

http://allabozarthwordsandimages.blogspot.com/