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I underlined things on nearly every page.\" — Anderson Cooper, All There Is\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wild Edge of Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e offers hope and healing for a profoundly fractured world—and a pathway home to the brightness, pains, and gifts of being alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntroducing the 5 gates of grief, psychotherapist Francis Weller explores how we move through the waters of grief and loss in a culture so fundamentally detached from the needs of the soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first gate recognizes—and invites us to accept—the painful truth that everything we love, we will lose. With this acceptance comes beauty and responsibility—and an openness into which we can pour the full love of our hearts. At the first gate, we meet the sorrow of losing a loved one; the grief of illness; and the unique and profound pains that accompany loss by suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second gate helps us uncover and tend to the places that have not known love—the neglected pieces of our soul that need restoration and care. These \"places\" can be our secret shames or the parts of us that we feel are undeserving of love. At the second gate, we face our shadows and heal our most tender wounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe third gate meets us at the sorrows of the world, inviting us to open to the grave pain of our planet—the destruction of ecosystems, the harms of extractive capitalism, the unfathomable pain of war and occupation. We learn to honour and hold this grief even as we move through it, recommitting ourselves to the actions our souls call upon us to perform in service of healing and renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fourth gate, what we expected but did not receive, is present in each and every one of our lives. We may need love from a parent or partner unable to give it; we may lack the language to ask for the care we deserve. Each is a loss that must be acknowledged and grieved to move toward wholeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fifth gate opens to our ancestral grief—the traumas, pains, losses, and unrealised dreams of those who came before us. Weller invites us to reconnect to our bodies, our communities, and the ancestral knowledge we hold in our bones...but may have forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProfoundly moving and beautifully written, this book is a balm for the soul and a necessary salve for moving together through difficult times. 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I underlined things on nearly every page.\" - Anderson Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his singular and inimitable voice, psychotherapist and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Edge of Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e, Francis Weller offers 17 soulful essays to help us move together through the anxieties, difficulties, and sacred transitions of 21st-century life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the Absence of the Ordinary\u003c\/em\u003e frames our current era as a rough initiation—an upending experience of profound trauma and transformation that demands we reorient our ways of thinking, being, and relating. 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