The Giving Way to Happiness: Stories and Science Behind the Life-Changing Power of Giving by Jenny Santi

The Giving Way to Happiness: Stories and Science Behind the Life-Changing Power of Giving by Jenny Santi

Author:Jenny Santi
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-10-26T14:00:00+00:00


Parental grief is grueling and can lead to all sorts of mental hell. One has to work through multiple myths about this ordeal. People will say, for instance, that time heals all wounds. But about two years after Daniel’s death I was feeling not better but markedly worse. I was so discouraged and often so physically and emotionally anesthetized that I began to do research on the clinical findings about parental grief. I undertook this research mostly as an attempt to figure out if I was losing my mind and if I would ever start feeling better about life. The findings of clinical psychologists helped me to understand several things. First, my reactions were normal and predictable. I was not losing my mind, but experiencing what the vast majority of bereaved parents experience. Feeling numb and short of breath, thinking incoherent thoughts—this is common. Looking around and expecting Daniel to run in at any moment is not a sign of mental illness.



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