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Do you suffer because of divorce? Are you overwhelmed by feelings of sadness, rejection, betrayal, anger, loneliness, fear, frustration, helplessness, and hopelessness? Does your expartner still have the power to ‘push your buttons’? Divorce is one of the most traumatic life events that can befall anyone. It rocks the very foundations of your being. It causes toxic thoughts and emotions that fester inside you and scream for attention. The bad news is that the pain is inevitable. The good news is that the suffering is optional. Escaping the misery of divorce requires a radical shift in mindset. divorceZen uncovers the simple techniques that will enable readers to: conquer their thoughts and emotions rather than being ruled by them; take back control over their emotional well-being from their partners; use their minds to guide them rather than tyrannize them; strengthen their inner resources; realize deeply that their lives have direction and meaning; live the life they desire rather than the one thrust upon them in divorce.

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In the summer of 2017, Will and his wife Amy lost their baby, Elowen, a few days before their due date. After a traumatic induced birth, they returned from hospital to their cottage in the New Forest, grief-stricken and struggling to make sense of what happened to them. Unmoored by sadness, what became clear in the weeks and months following Elowen's death is that there is no established vocabulary with which to understand this experience, either for Will or the people around him. Indeed, as he discovers, there is no word in the English language for a parent who has lost a child. Without any linguistic or emotional scaffold, the disorientation of his grief feels ever more lonely and alienating. Elowen charts the darkness of Will's grief over the course of two years with unflinching honesty, but it also describes in sonorous prose what sustained him: the natural world, and in particular the silence and attentiveness of tracking wolves in the forests of Sweden. These animals, only ever fleetingly seen, nonetheless provided profound solace, and in the act of searching for them he began to find a way to live with his grief. This profoundly moving, ultimately uplifting book challenges the way we think about loss and help us to re-evaluate our relationship to the natural world. Elowen is not only a remarkable portrait of grief, but also an impassioned hymn to the wild and a treatise on the restorative potential of nature in uncertain times.

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.

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