A Short Course in Happiness After Loss

by Maria Sirois

Overview

A Short Course in Happiness After Loss brings to us a powerful intersection of the science of positive psychology and the wisdom necessary to thrive when facing life's harshest moments. In poetic, compassionate and yet fearless language, Sirois traverses the territories we most fear--death, exile, disease--and carefully lights pathways toward a happiness that includes the scars of our suffering and the bounty and goodness present within our world. Her work offers each of us, no matter the trials of our lives, a template for rising through pain into a steady, resilient and open heart, one capable of facing sorrow and loving fully and laughing richly anyway.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158474316
Publisher:	Green Fire Press
Publication date:	04/04/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	989 KB

About the Author

Dr. Maria Sirois is a clinical psychologist, international consultant and inspirational speaker who works in the intersections of psychology and wellbeing.  She is a master teacher and facilitator, devoted to the science of happiness and the art of crafting a life and a work that embodies health, passion and success. As a positive psychologist and consultant, she focuses on the resilience of the human spirit, particularly when under chronic stress and/or the shock of things falling apart. Her first book, Every Day Counts: Lessons in Love, Faith and Resilience From Children Facing Illness is used as a teaching tool at wellness centers, hospitals and hospices and offers wisdom from those who are dying. Her home is in the Berkshire Mountains.

Editorial Reviews

Few could guide us as well through dark moments toward wholeness. It takes a master storyteller and an extraordinarily sensitive soul to speak about loss and happiness in proximity to one another. Maria Sirois, by drawing on personal experience, research, and a lot of heart, can help us all navigate through life's most difficult experiences, so that we can find our way to safety, and even to happiness.

author of Happier - Tal Ben-Shahar

What a wonderful book this is!  Full of insight drawn from the author's clinical practice, A Short Course in Happiness After Loss deserves a place on your shelf next to When Things Fall Apart, Broken Open, and The Year of Magical Thinking. Beautifully written and tenderly observed, Maria Sirois' meditation on loss and resilience will help you through your darkest hours and fill your heart again with joy.

author of When Youre Falling, Dive - Mark Matousek

This book tells us how to love truly, fully, and completely in the face of suffering and loss. Maria Sirois writes of her own losses and the losses of others she accompanies in her work as a therapist and teacher. This is a book of beauty and grace, a book that teaches us that happiness waits patiently for those who seek it.

author of The Blessing of a Broken Heart - Sherri Mandell

How can we live with deep grief and still find meaning and happiness? It may seem impossible, but -- drawing from her experiences and those of many people she has worked with -- Maria shows us that this can happen. In her unique voice, poetic and heartfelt, she teaches us that there are no recipes for recovering from tragedy, but that we can choose how we want to be in the face of loss and learn to accept the puzzling but real coexistence of great pain and great joy in our life.

author of Positive Identities: Narrative Practices and Positive Psychology - Margarita Tarragona

Every grief is piercingly unique, and every one of us picks our own path through.  What a lifeline to have Maria by our sides, presenting some universal human truths as signposts to guide us, tossing us the lifelines of wisdom and humor as we navigate to a new normal and rediscover light and grace.

blogger: A Raisin and A Porpoise - Janet Reich Elsbach