Some surviors try to think their way through grief.  That doesn't work.  Grief is a releasing proces, a discovery process, a healing process.  We cannot realease or discover or heal by the use of our minds alone.  The brain must follow the heart at a respectful distance.  It is our hearts that ache when a loved one dies.  It is our emotions that are drastically affected.  Certainly the mind suffers, the mind recalls, the mind may plot and plan and wish, but it is the heart that will blaze the trail through the thicket of grief.
 
The book is divided into three sections that correspond to the three broad and fluid phases of grief: Retreating, Working Through and Resolving.  It is the aim of the book to assist you, to be your companion, as you make that difficult but necessary and rewarding journey from coping to healing.