Choosing Light

Transforming Grief through the Practice of Mindful Photography and Self-Reflection

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Jessica Thomas

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Mindful photography and self-reflection can be invaluable tools for grievers struggling to create meaning from loss. Learning to slow down, notice, create, and reflect inspires a sense of confidence, inner strength, gratitude, meaningful insight, and wisdom. Written for death and grief practitioners and educators as well as for those experiencing grief, Choosing Light teaches the Within and Without therapeutic method and how it can be transformative for individuals, groups, and communities. Guided steps and real-life exemplars guide readers through a healing journey to find authentic meaning and peace.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-07-07
Mått158 x 238 x 16 mm
Vikt422 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor124
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetarePadma,JiHyang
ISBN9781538193181

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Jessica Thomas, PhD, MS, is a professor at Lewis & Clark College, clinical supervisor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, therapist, grief educator, and organizational consultant. Jessica has served on the not-for-profit board of the NW Association for Death Education and Bereavement Support for over eight years. She has been a hospice volunteer and a proud volunteer and advocate for Death Cafes, working to increase awareness of death and dying in the greater community. She offers both professional and community workshops, presentations, and talks on death and grief, transpersonal psychology, and the Within and Without therapeutic method. Some of Jessica’s favorite projects involve consulting with organizations and developing death and grief education, as well as facilitating creative training sessions and meaningful group practices. More information can be found on her website: https://drjessicathomas.com/

Foreword by Ji Hyang PadmaAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Reflecting on Death, Grief, and LossAnticipatory GriefComplicated GriefPreparednessNotesChapter 2: Expanding AwarenessMindfulness Aesthetic PerceptionCreative ExpressionNotesChapter 3: Open Your Eyes. Open Your Heart.Mindful PhotographyPhotography, Death, and DyingDeveloping Your PracticeNotesChapter 4: Within and WithoutMagnificence and Insignificance (Anticipatory Grief) Veil of Grief (Bereavement Grief) Feeling Cared For (Grief with Life-Threatening Illness)Mind and Spirit Free at Last (Lingering Grief)Chapter 5: Choosing Light Meaning-MakingSymbolism Photographic Equivalence NotesChapter 6: Transformative GrowthBefriending GriefContinuing BondsSacred OutlookNotesChapter 7: Therapeutic PhotographyHealing RitualReflection GroupsHealing In CommunionNotesConclusionNoteResourcesReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Uniting the processes of transforming, grieving, and reflecting, Jessica Thomas brings us into a novel and powerful way to integrate and understand the experience of grief and the counterinstinctive secret blessings that it holds. It has been said that the degree to which we do not accept life as it is given to us—rather than what we wish and even insist that it be—keeps us from moving through the experience of loss to the other side of grief's sorrow and pain. Thomas's approach holds great promise in deepening our understanding and attaining this most often hidden and truly sacred side of the grieving process.