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  The Christmas season has become a mixed set of emotions for us. My grandson was born Christmas Day 20 years ago -- extra annual joy! The brother of a young man we took for 6 years died Christmas eve this year of covid. This is the first year that our family is observing the holidays without our patriarch, Carl , and Murjan , our beloved cat. So, for sure, grief has wrapped itself around our holiday activities. Here, then, is an excerpt from Julie Potter's book, Harnessing the Power of Grief , that we have found insightful... Beginning to adjust You are not a stranger to this process. There are many times during your life when you have to adjust to and make your way in a new world: the first day of school, going away to college, getting a new job, marrying, moving to a new neighborhood, retiring and living in a new world with no colleagues and no 9-to-5 schedule, becoming ill or disabled at any age and living in a slower world with people surging on ahead of you, emigrating to a n...

  RECOMMENDED BY US REVIEW OF BOOKS With fresh, highly informative material on every page, Potter offers intelligent, sensitive guidelines meriting thoughtful study, along with pragmatic, readily accessible approaches from which anyone can benefit at any stage of the grief experience . -- so says Barbaara Bamberger Scott, reviewer for the US Review of Books. Read the entire review HERE . For more posts on Julie and her book, click HERE .

                      Recently released: the audio book edition  Harnessing the Power of Grief  (Potter):     BEST INDIE BOOK AWARD For more posts about Julie and her book, click  HERE .  To purchase copies of this book at 25% discount, use code FF25 at  MSI Press webstore . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC monthly newsletter (recent releases, sales/discounts, awards, reviews, Amazon top 100 list, author advice, and more -- stay up to date)   Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC?  We help writers become award-winning published authors. One writer at a time. We are a family, not a factory. Do you have a future with us? Turned away by other publishers because you are a first-time author and/or do not have a strong platform yet? If you have a strong manuscript, San Juan Books, our hybrid publishi...

  Excerpt from  Harnessing the Power of Grief  (Potter): The Experience of Grief and What It Might be Like for You   “I was just as crazy as you can be and still be at large. I didn’t have any really normal minutes during those two years. It wasn’t just grief. It was total confusion. I was nutty….” —Helen Hayes, Actress [ McNees ] [1]   Your individual grief experiences will differ from others’ experiences and differ from your own past grief experiences. When you lose someone, your experience of the loss may surprise you. You might envision how you might feel, or what you might think, but you will not know how you are with the loss until it happens.   The experience of grief includes general characteristics commonly experienced by everyone and personal characteristics that are particular to your own situation. Your personal characteristics will affect how you experience the more general characteristics. All these characteristics are interwoven...