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Zarifeh, Julie,

Grief on the run : how active grieving helped me cope with devastating loss / Julie Zarifeh. - Auckland, New Zealand : Allen & Unwin, 2021. - 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm

What happens when your life is rocked by unimaginable loss and grief? How do you survive and how do you keep going? Julie Zarifeh shares the tragic story of losing her 27-year-old son, Sam, in a whitewater rafting accident just sixteen days after her 60-year-old husband, Paul, died of pancreatic cancer. She describes how she and her surviving son and daughter dealt with this double whammy and how she embraced the notion of 'active grieving'. This included a 450-kilometre cycle tour around Sri Lanka, raising money to give disadvantaged Kiwi children new bikes; trekking the 800-kilometre Camino de Santiago; and running the New York marathon on behalf of the Mental Health Foundation. Julie's account of learning to live with grief, plus her experience as a clinical psychologist, make this an inspirational and ultimately uplifting read.

ISBN: 9781988547367 1988547369

Subjects--Personal Names:
Zarifeh, Julie--Family.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Grief--Psychological aspects.
Loss (Psychology).
Husbands--Death--Psychological aspects.
Sons--Death--Psychological aspects.

LC Class. No.: BF575.G7 / Z37 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 155.937