Understanding and Managing Grief: When the Desert Begins to Bloom

Abstract

The present chapter is a close ally of the previous chapter on the lost art of sadness, and though there may be overlapping issues, this chapter has a specific mission in narrating my own journey through grief, sadness and mild depression and a return to a vibrant, expansive and enriching emergence of a ‘new sense of self’ within me. The issues can easily be shared as there are both clients and therapist who have gone through a similar journey of loss, grief and an expansive sense of love and compassion. Also, going through a different dimension of a personal narrative, this chapter strengthens the claims of the last chapter.