A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance: Help for the Losses in Life

Winner of the 2001 Benjamin Franklin Award from the Publishers Marketing Association--for the best self-help book. "Margaret Metzgar has created a masterful blend of expertise and compassion. Practical suggestions, beautiful photography, helpful words---A Time to Mourn is a healing guide for the journey through grief." Darcie D. Sims, Ph.D., GMS, CGC, CHT. Coping with the death of a loved one or with life's other inevitable losses---divorce, unemployment, aging, loss of a pet, even positive loss such as retirement---is never easy. But reading A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance is like having a good friend holding your hand as you grieve. Author Margaret Metzgar gently guides readers through the various stage of grieving and reassures them---be good to yourself, go at your own pace. Beautiful nature photography reinforces the sensitive, helpful advice to more than half a million mourners, their families, and friends. And it offers help for the reader's journey through grief---Giving grief a name; how to say "good-bye"; how long will it last? how will I know if special help is needed? "When I read this book, a mother grieving for her daughter explained, "it's as if a warm blanket is enveloping and comforting me.