Table of Contents
Foreword Mirabai Starr ix
Introduction to the New Edition Ondrea Levine xii|91 Preface xv
Introduction xvii
1 Unattended Sorrow 1
2 Every Day We Lose Something 7
3 The Heart of Loss 14
4 Softening the Belly of Sorrow 19
5 The Reservoir of Sorrow 24
6 Loss of Trust in Life 28
7 The Meaning of Life 34
8 In the Absence of God 39
9 When the Mirror of the Heart is Broken 43
10 A Bad Dream 49
11 Opening the Heart in Hell 53
12 The Trauma of Survival 58
13 Connection 65
14 Making Peace with Our Sorrow 71
15 What Is the Body Pattern of Grief? 80
16 Reentering the Body 85
17 Attending the Mindset of Loss 88
18 A Day of Walking 94
19 Heart Breath 98
20 Tapping the Resources of the Heart 102
21 A Day of Loving Kindness 106
22 Trusting Our Pain 110
23 A Day in the Heart of Pain 115
24 Mindfulness: An Invitation to Liberation 119
25 A Day of Silence 125
26 Breaking the Isolation of Fear 128
27 Forgiveness 138
28 A Day of Forgiveness 147
29 Our Most Ordinary Existential Grief 151
30 Overcoming Perfection 158
31 The Ten Thousand Sorrows 161
32 A Day of Singing 167
33 Our Life Is "Just This Much" 169
34 The Map of Our Lives 174
35 Who Are We When We Are Not Who We Thought We Were? 181
36 A Day of Compassion 189
37 A Day as if It Were Our Last 193
38 A Heart Revived into a New Life 199
39 A Day in a Healing Life 202
40 Gratitude 205