Heartache and mourning are among the most thoughtprovoking experiences each of us has to face at one time or another in our life. If you come away from this book with only one thing, I hope you come to comprehend that you are able to be gentle with yourself as you move through the complex stages of emotional wounds. With better understanding of the grief process, that is essential to heal emotional wounds, and learning the tools and skills you'll learn in this book, you'll discover you're able to markedly lessen your pain and suffering as you move through the process of healing emotional wounds.

The great news is that when faced with the inevitable, we might find ourselves undergoing intense emotions that we never imagined we would or may feel. And these emotions may be cleansing - providing dismissals from attachments and memories that are no longer possible to resolve with an individual. The further great news is that we might experience enormous emotional and spiritual growth in our journeys through heartache and mourning. Learning to experience and separate our sadness, angers and guilts that are aspects of the normal grief experience may be enormously beneficial in the long haul.