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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

Honoring Grief

Alexandra Kennedy · 2014
81/100
👍 Worth It

Alexandra Kennedy brings nearly four decades of clinical grief work to a book that is brief enough to actually be read in the fog of loss — that alone sets it apart. The poetic, compassionate prose has been praised by multiple reviewers, and the New Harbinger imprint is a reliable signal of editorial rigor in the mental-health space. It's less comprehensive than a textbook and more experiential than evidence-based, but for someone in raw grief, that's exactly what's needed.

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