Theresa Caputo, TLC’s Long Island Medium and the three-time New York Times bestselling author, teaches us how to ritualize and recover from the daily losses in our lives.Life on earth comes with losses that often go unrecognized, unacknowledged, and un-mourned. This invisible pain causes deeper emotional damage— devastation that Theresa Caputo has witnessed in many of her clients. Though they are … witnessed in many of her clients. Though they are suffering, they rarely understand where the anguish is coming from—or how to deal with it.
Theresa’s clients often confuse their emotional distress with depression or anxiety. But it’s more than that. It’s grief, deep and profound, and it consumes the soul. The only relief, according to Theresa’s special gift she calls Spirit, is to pay more attention to how we experience, ritualize, and recover from the hurt in our lives.
Once we name these feelings of grief, recognize the losses for what they are, and create mourning rituals around them, we can move through the pain and begin to heal. It isn’t just a good idea to mourn these types of upsets; it’s essential, so that we can then enjoy a fresh beginning.
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3.5 -3.75 stars
I have been to see Ms. Caputo’s live show several times and I have always been blown away. GOOD MOURNING is the first book from her that I’ve read. While I wasn’t as blown away, it was interesting. While I didn’t truly connect with the first half of the book, she gave good advice that I’ve tucked away in case I ever need it. It wasn’t until the second half of the book that I really connected with it. Once she started talking about losing your youth and learning to deal with an empty nest, I was all in.
I received an ARC from NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for an honest review. I have watched her show the Long Island Medium and have gotten a lot out of it. This book brings her gift to us about everyday loss. With us being in 2020 this book brought me comfort, inspiration, answers.
I could see where I had been through a loss such as financial loss and how I moved forward and the book showed me that it was how I did it that got me to where I am now. There are so many losses we go through and some we don’t even think about.
I have always believed that I am never alone, there is always something there with me. I have experienced many of the things I read in the book. As I was reading the book, I found such comfort in knowing I wasn’t alone, someone else understood. There were parts of the book that I thought this seems like it is somehow preparing me, This book is a gift and seems I am giving an honest review, when I looked at the cover of the book, I saw such sadness in Theresa’s eyes. I thought it was going to be a difficult book to read but it wasn’t, I could feel the spirit coming through her and because of that, such powerful wisdom came through.
As I said previously I have had losses and with some of the losses, it felt like I was in a tailspin, a fog, and would never make it through and this book helped me to understand that.
The only negative thing I could possibly say about this book is I wished it was already published because I can see in my head how many people are going to benefit from reading this book. You don’t ever have to go through life alone and this book is going to help bring you through the losses you go through but you might find yourself saying I have heard a voice in my head during one or more of the roughest times you are going through.
This is a book I will buy and share with people who I know are going through rough times because I do think it will give them comfort just as it has given me comfort. There seems to be so much loss this year and as I am writing this review I am seeing that it will be released on October 6, 2020, and maybe that is when this year will start to turn around because people will be reading this book and it will begin to help people heal, help them see things a little clearer and with that, they take the steps to make life better.