The Many Faces of Grief - Coombes, Heather S.
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Heather reflects on her personal experiences of bereavement as a springboard to discuss many different aspects of grief involving such aspects as miscarriage, COVID-19, illness, faith, incarceration, and migration, to name a few. Her approach is honest and empathetic, as she shares many stories of others. She concludes that the experience of grief is universal, even though it is many different faces. Healing the wounds of grief can be a lifelong journey. The book offers sensitive yet positive guidance on traveling the road towards transformation and understanding both of oneself and our fellow pilgrims.…mehr

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Heather reflects on her personal experiences of bereavement as a springboard to discuss many different aspects of grief involving such aspects as miscarriage, COVID-19, illness, faith, incarceration, and migration, to name a few. Her approach is honest and empathetic, as she shares many stories of others. She concludes that the experience of grief is universal, even though it is many different faces. Healing the wounds of grief can be a lifelong journey. The book offers sensitive yet positive guidance on traveling the road towards transformation and understanding both of oneself and our fellow pilgrims.
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Heather S. Coombes was born in 1954 in India with cerebral palsy. She was educated in Australia at Young Infants' School, West Wollongong Primary and the Spastic Centre of NSW (now the Cerebral Palsy Alliance) She attended Macquarie University (Behavioural Sciences), University of NSW (Librarianship) and the United Theological College (Theology). Heather was employed with the Australian Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled (Librarian) in 1978 to 82 and ordained as a Uniting Church minister in 1986. Her working life continued with Uniting Church Ipswich Central Mission in Queensland as a chaplain and later as an associate librarian in a theological library Her pastoral ministry in aged care began in Mayflower Retirement Village chaplaincy (southern NSW and continued with UnitingCare Ageing Central Coast NSW. Retirement now leaves time to spend with family and hobbies. Heather likes reading biography and murder mystery. Swimming gives her pleasure. Heather volunteers in pastoral care and occasional preaching. She lives in Thornlands, Queensland Australia