Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller offers an essential, lyrical, yet practical handbook for navigating the deep waters of sorrow and loss in The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief. This book explores how Western patterns of emotional avoidance affect our capacity to cope with personal and collective sorrows, revealing the new vitality achievable when we welcome the pain of loss rather than fear it.

Weller guides readers through moving personal stories, poetry, and insightful reflections to access the central energy of sorrow, leading toward profound healing and heightened communion with others and the planet.

• Examines how grief has historically been communal and the need for compassion and ritual to metabolize loss.
• Addresses obstacles to successful grief work, including privatized pain, lack of communal rituals, fear, and culturally restrictive emotional ranges.
• Highlights the intimate bond between grief and gratitude, and sorrow and intimacy.
• Offers powerful tools and rituals to help transform grief into a force for fuller living and loving.
• Ideal for those working with grief, those who have experienced loss, those mourning planetary destruction, or those dealing with accumulated life traumas.

• Author: Francis Weller
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Publication Date: October 15, 2015
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.
• Print Length: 180 pages
• ISBN-13: 978-1583949764
• Dimensions: 140 x 13 x 216mm
• Weight: 306g

Discover how to move beyond hiding pain—which causes sorrow to linger unexpressed—and instead face the powerful energies of sorrow to find profound healing.