How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies

Living Life While Navigating the Death of a Loved One

If you recently lost a loved one, How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies is the lifeline you are seeking. Dr. Therese A. Rando's compassionate and comprehensive guide will help you navigate the storm and find your way back to solid ground.

Whether dealing with sudden loss or mourning a long-anticipated passing, this book acknowledges that each person's journey through grief is unique. It equips its readers with the tools to understand and address their grief, communicate with children about death, attend to any unfinished business, and find support and other resources to help them move forward with their lives.

Dr. Rando emphasizes the importance of self-care and encourages the acceptance of appropriate help and support from others. She provides practical strategies for managing grief during difficult times like the holidays, for planning funerals, and for creating meaningful personal rituals.

First published in the late 1980s, Dr. Rando's book is an enduring guide to the psychological, social, physical, spiritual, and practical aspects of loss. With decades of clinical experience and international acclaim, she is a leading expert on the grieving process. While this guide is intended for people who have lost a loved one, it is also a resource for carers, or anyone else, who wish to support someone navigating the path of bereavement. In the face of loss, this book is not just about surviving, but about living-truly and fully.

This book is also available from Echo Point Books in hardcover (ISBN 1648374115).

"Best Book About Dealing with Grief After a Death."-New York Magazine

"The most comprehensive, insightful, and helpful volume on loss and survival." -Rabbi Dr. Earl A Grollman, author of Living When a Loved One Has Died

"Dr. Rando's book should help anyone who has survived the pain of this kind of loss and is trying to adjust to a new world without his loved one." -Art Linkletter

Dr. Therese A. Rando is a clinical psychologist, traumatologist, and thanatologist. She is Director of The Institute for the Study and Treatment of Loss in Rhode Island, U.S. She provides psychotherapy, consultation, supervision, training, expert witness consultation, and media commentary in matters related to loss and grief, illness, injury, dying, trauma, disaster, and stress reactions of first responders. The recipient of numerous professional awards, Dr. Rando is a national media resource expert for the American Psychological Association and has appeared extensively on television, radio, in-print, and online. Her current professional foci include treatment of complicated mourning, interventions for sudden death and traumatic bereavement, anticipatory mourning, and loss of a child. Dr. Rando's many books and publications address these and related topics. Visit her website at

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