About this item
Few of us know how to navigate the territory of traumatic loss successfully. Sweet Sorrow shows how we can respond and grow stronger from loss and suffering. Written by a psychologist and certified bereavement trauma specialist in the decade following the loss of her husband, father, mother, and only sibling, this carefully considered work provides perspective on grief and healing over time. This longer-term approach allows readers to have a more complete and accurate picture of the oscillations of grief over time. The book describes not only the immediate agony of the author's losses, but also the process of starting over and making a successful new life as a single person full of hope and joy.Sweet Sorrow combines the author's psychological expertise and clinical experience with the compelling art of memoir to illuminate the surprising ways in which loss survivors can grow and even thrive to achieve wholeness after heartbreaking, traumatic losses.
About the Author
Sherry Cormier was born in Philadelphia and grew up in the midwest in Kansas. After completing her graduate work at Purdue, she accepted faculty positions at the University of Tennessee and West Virginia University. Notably, perhaps, all of these universities have terrific collegiate sports programs, contributing to the fact she is a bit of a radical sports fan when rooting for her favs!Sherry is a licensed psychologist, a certified bereavement trauma specialist, and a professor emerita. She is the author of several counseling psychology textbooks and has produced, in conjunction with Dr Cynthia Osborn and Kent State Teleproductions, a number of training films in the areas of group counseling, helping skills, self-care, ethics, and substance use and addictions, for Cengage Publishers.Currently Sherry lives on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland where she enjoys kayaking and sailing. See also www.sherrycormierauthor.com
