Insights I Gained from Great Loss

unless I did something about it. However, my energy was low at this point, and part of me just did not care enough to take any action. It felt like I was moving through mud, and my days just dragged on.

This went on for some time before I started feeling restless. It was then that I decided I had to choose to heal and take some action to make it happen. Over the next year, I did just that.

Insights I Gained from Great Loss Along the way, I gained many insights about loss and how it impacts the Soul’s journey. I learned that there is a common thread that delineates all great losses, whether it be the death of a loved one, a divorce, career disruption, financial ruin, or a health crisis.

I came to understand that the Soul who had been my daughter had decided that it was time to go home. She was still with me, just in a different way. The love that we shared was still there. I learned that she had been with me and had been trying to comfort me during those difficult early days after her death. Along the way on my healing journey, I learned to reestablish communication with her.

My healing journey has not been a smooth one and has taken longer and been much more difficult than I anticipated. The pain has been intense at times, but the spiritual growth and understanding that I have gained from experiencing this loss has been appreciable. The pain of great loss does last longer than it does for other losses, and we must work harder to heal. However, the potential rewards for putting in the time and effort to do so are considerable.

Great loss frees us from patterns that were limiting our spiritual growth and thus keeping us from being fully engaged in pursuing our own hopes and dreams. We now can live our best lives yet and make the most of the time we have left here on earth. I share my healing journey and what I learned along the way with you in the pages that follow. You will find specific strategies to employ on your own healing journey. I wish you well!

Exercise

Tell the Story of Your Great Loss Record the story of your great loss in a notebook. Write about your reactions and feelings as well as the events. Include as much detail as you would like. Write about the following:

• Any events leading up to your loss • How you learned of your loss • What happened • How the events surrounding your loss unfolded • What occurred in the early period after your loss • The longer-term reactions you are having to your loss

“Dr. Clark has brilliantly crafted this guidebook that is personal and instructive simultaneously. This is a gift to the grieving, not just for great loss, but for all grief and loss which follows change within our lives.” —Maggie W. Banger, LPC-S, NCC, certified grief recovery specialist through the Grief Recovery Institute

Come Alive Again after Enduring a Great Loss

Great loss turns your world upside down and steals your sense of security, leaving you devastated and confused. However, through healing, it can turn into an opportunity to become your authentic self and achieve renewed joy and fulfillment in your life. Written from the perspective of Dr. Michael Newton’s Life between Lives work, Healing from Great Loss shares dozens of inspiring stories from clients who have connected with their inner guidance to overcome traumatic loss. Ann J. Clark guides you on your own healing journey using a wide variety of exercises, such as visualizations, self-assessments, journal prompts, and more. Whether you have lost a loved one, a relationship, a job, a sense of security, or your independence, Healing from Great Loss gently reveals how to find the lesson embedded in the experience and how self-care, forgiveness, and spiritual growth can restore your zest for living.

ANN J. CLARK, PHD, RN, formerly an academic researcher, is now a practicing spiritual hypnotherapist, Michael Newton Institute Life between Lives facilitator, and Soul advocate. Her work has led her to look for the gift in life’s difficult and challenging experiences. The unexpected loss of her daughter was the impetus behind Healing from Great Loss, which is written from the perspective of the Soul. Visit her at www.birminghamhypnosis.com.

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