The Anatomy of Grief: How the Brain, Heart, and Body Can Heal after Loss Paperback – May 17, 2022

Everything was fine. It was good that the volume can be read from beginning to end or by separate aspects.

Not as good as the interview that I heard with the author. I wanted to enjoy it more.

This is a very helpful book on grief & loss if you have lost loved-ones. It compassionately affirms that there is no right or wrong way to grieve your unique loss, or time limit.Your heart will tell you when to move forward, while still honoring your Beloved.The section on Sibling Loss has helped me understand how our childhood memories are part of our genuine grief experience. Sibling Loss is often overlooked by society as an important grief-process, unlike losing a spouse or child.This is a helpful & interesting book, with stories of people who have suffered loss through both illness & sudden death, with concrete & helpful suggestions.

Good for research

This therapist as done in depth work and compassionate accounts of death and loss and how grief changes usIt also shines light on the fact that time can truly heal if Grief is allowed to be accounted for and faced. I lost my little brother when he was 19 in an accident , at that time, there were no books for siblings and the trauma of that kind of loss. I was told to take care of my parents. I felt so horribly for them that for many years I never attended to myself. This book really focuses on the loss of siblings at the last chapters and I was so grateful.This is an excellent and informative read written by a caring and incredibly bright, insightful person.

My husband died at the beginning of the pandemic. I have since read many books on grief. This book stands out as not only informative, helpful, and validating of the experience of grief but the author is also compassionate and understands grief from the perspective of sitting with those who are grieving. She has thus not only knowledge of grief and its impact on others in a manner that acknowledges the need for this process to "be" -- but she also provides anecdotes from her experience and from the experience of others, and connects this information with what is known about the history and biology of grief.

A highly skilled clinician, researcher, and writer - Dr. Holinger's unique book offers the reader strategies for going on when death comes calling and you find yourself completely unmoored. "Grief is a chameleon" and, here you are not going to find ways to OVERCOME grief. Rather, Dr. Holinger takes the reader through what grief is truly like, on the brain, the heart, and the body of the bereaved . Includes sections on complicated and extended loss. Tremendous, and beautifully written.

My wife has Dementia. Dr. Holinger's book is helping me "live a long goodbye." I'm more patient and kind with her as together we grieve her loss. In those moments when I can set my emotions aside, my wife and I even find a little laughter.