Graceful Endings

What do we say to a loved one who has just received a terminal diagnosis? How do we cope with the news that we have a life-threatening illness? How do we deal with our grief? Graceful Endings offers simple strategies for creating a graceful end of life experience. It contains true stories of individuals who chose to die consciously, fully alive and open to the wonders that can arise in this fragile and sacred passage of life. It provides tools for surviving and even thriving through the roller coaster of emotions in facing death — practices that sustain the dying and those that love them throughout the journey. With deep candor, former Hospice Spiritual Care Director and best-selling author, Linda Kavelin-Popov explores the faces and phases of grief. She shares her own experience as a caregiver for her younger brother, John, who died of brain cancer, and the inspiring story of how John faced his own death with reverence, trust, and joy.

About the Author

Linda Kavelin-Popov is the best-selling author of The Family Virtues Guide and A Pace of Grace. She is a psychotherapist, specializing in suicide prevention and community healing. As co-founder of The Virtues Project, she is an internationally renowned speaker and teacher on personal and global transformation. For more than two decades, she has worked with indigenous peoples impacted by the trauma of residential school abuses. She has had many appearances on radio and television, including Oprah, and had her own television series in Canada. Linda now lives on an island in the South Pacific with her husband, Dan.

Product Details:

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (September 19, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 147916531X ISBN-13: 978-1479165315
• Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches