Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love Paperback - 1997

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An inspiring and profoundly moving book, Seven Choices offers hope, comfort, and advice to those who are experiencing change and loss. Dr. Elizabeth Harper Neeld guides the reader through the often confusing range of emotions and issues that occur during the process of finding equilibrium after change and loss.The poignant story of the death of Dr. Neeld's young husband serves as the author's starting point. She then goes on to describe the seven steps in a life-transforming process of change and identifies the seven growth-engendering choices that culminate in release from the past and in discovery of a stronger and balanced self ready to live into the future. Enriched by the varied experiences of people who, like the author, have found a renewed zest for life, Dr. Neeld's beautifully written book provides the deep compassion, the keen insight, and the practical steps that will empower the person facing change and loss to become a healthier, happier, and wiser individual. [Description excerpted/adapted from Doubleday Dell review, New York]In this ground-breaking book, Elizabeth Harper Neeld describes the steps each of us can take to find a new balance for our lives after experiencing death, divorce, financial setbacks, illness, as well as grief, loss and change of any kind. This book maps the complete grieving and change process and provides a way to respond to change by identifying seven positive choices that lead to a new normal. These positive choices bring healing and stability and show how to avoid getting stuck in mourning, anger, bitterness and sadness. Index, Notes, and an extensive Directory of Resources.