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First Year, Worst Year
Coping with the unexpected death of our grown-up daughter
Barbara A. Wilson (Author), Michael John Wilson (Author)
9780470093597, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 1 October 2004
240 pages
23 x 15.3 x 1.8 cm, 0.34 kg
"...portrays the challenge of getting through each day in a state of grief, trauma and shock." (Human Givens Journal, Vol.11, No.4, 2004) "...a potentially useful resource..." (Journal of Mental Health, Vol 14 (3) 2005)
When clinical psychologist Barbara Wilson was faced with the devastating loss of her adult daughter Sarah, her professional skills were sorely tested. How she, her husband Mick, and their family came to terms with their loss is detailed in First Year, Worst Year, a moving memoir of survival during and after bereavement. Filled with photos of the Wilson family and their journey retracing the last moments of their daughter, who perished in a rafting accident in Peru, this book is a testament to the resilience of the human heart, even after it’s been broken.
Foreword ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1 There’s terrible, terrible news 4 Chapter 2 Sarah lovely, Sarah happy 17 Chapter 3 You were not fragile until you were fearless 36 Chapter 4 It’s OK, I can talk about it 82 Chapter 5 I always flirt with death 111 Chapter 6 Can you make a phone call if you’re dead? 141 Chapter 7 Wekissthejoyasitflies 173 Chapter 8 The final goodbye: ‘‘ForeverYoung’’ 179 Epilogue Last word from Sarah (as it were) 197 References 201
Subject Areas: Self-help & personal development [VS]
