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The Myth of Closure
Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and ChangeBy Pauline Boss PhDNarrated by Elisabeth RodgersLength3h 33m
About this audiobook
How do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved?
The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. In this audiobook, pioneering therapist Pauline Boss identifies these vague feelings of distress as caused by ambiguous loss, losses that remain unclear and hard to pin down, and thus have no closure. Collectively the world is grieving as the pandemic continues to change our everyday lives.
With a loss of trust in the world as a safe place, a loss of certainty about health care, education, and employment, lingering anxieties plague many of us, even as parts of the world are opening back up again. Yet after so much loss, our search must be for a sense of meaning, and not something as elusive and impossible as “closure.”
This book provides many strategies for coping: encouraging us to increase our tolerance of ambiguity and acknowledging our resilience as we express a normal grief, and still look to the future with hope and possibility.
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GenrePsychology
Length3 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byElisabeth Rodgers
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateFeb 19, 2022
LanguageEnglish
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