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aasplund's review
hopeful
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
2.0
I got this book when I was reading up on grief therapy a lot. And this was by far the least helpful book I read on the subject.
This book is interesting because it focuses on grief for various life events and stages and that's the part I appreciated. Grief can be about more than losing someone - and this book does an excellent job of acknowledging that.
However, this book wasn't very helpful as a resource for therapists. A lot of this book feels autobiographical -Beattie shares experiences she's had throughout her life (or the experiences of people she knows) and talks about how her experiences have made her a better person or how she got through difficult things. And in some settings and for some people, I can see this book being very helpful. However, for me, it was not.
And that's partly because a lot of the stories are kind of random and aren't the sort of things I'll be helping clients with on a regular basis. At the end of each chapter, Beattie includes statistics that relate to whatever the chapter is about. So one chapter was all about how difficult it is to be a first-time horse owner and the end of the chapter was a list of horse facts. It was random and not at all applicable to my clinical work.
I didn't become a better therapist by reading this book. And while some clients could probably benefit from Beattie's positive outlook on situations, her style is so different from mine that I don't feel this would be a book I'd recommend for clients.
This book is interesting because it focuses on grief for various life events and stages and that's the part I appreciated. Grief can be about more than losing someone - and this book does an excellent job of acknowledging that.
However, this book wasn't very helpful as a resource for therapists. A lot of this book feels autobiographical -Beattie shares experiences she's had throughout her life (or the experiences of people she knows) and talks about how her experiences have made her a better person or how she got through difficult things. And in some settings and for some people, I can see this book being very helpful. However, for me, it was not.
And that's partly because a lot of the stories are kind of random and aren't the sort of things I'll be helping clients with on a regular basis. At the end of each chapter, Beattie includes statistics that relate to whatever the chapter is about. So one chapter was all about how difficult it is to be a first-time horse owner and the end of the chapter was a list of horse facts. It was random and not at all applicable to my clinical work.
I didn't become a better therapist by reading this book. And while some clients could probably benefit from Beattie's positive outlook on situations, her style is so different from mine that I don't feel this would be a book I'd recommend for clients.
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