{"product_id":"9781403375100","title":"Precious Heart-Broken Heart: Love \u0026 the Search for Finality in Divorce","description":"\u003cp\u003eI chronicle the nature of grief peculiar to divorce in a personal manner through the lens of my experience and clinical understanding.  I begin with love and end with love. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Part One:  I begin with the fantasy that turned into tragedy, and I use the analogy of a clock's mechanism to show the general nature and course of healthy grief – especially in divorce.  I start with an analogy of the mechanical nature of something totally non-mechanical and fully metaphysical.  A mainspring, fulcrum, lever, and pendulums show how inward and outward expressions of grief facilitate or impede healing. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Part Two:  the Black Forest Pathway – How Expression Unfolds – chapters III through XII, a few other analogies are used to chronicle the journey through grief, like the \"Bay of Heartbrokenness,\" the \"Bridge of Finality,\" and the \"Wasteland.\"  With these analogies and some liberty, I take the reader on a walk through the \"Black Forest,\" observing the various trees that make up grief in the various stages of a divorce.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Part Three:  the Black Forest – What Helps Expression – chapters XIII and XV, I step back and view the Black Forest as a whole;  that is, in comparison with and without diminishing the grief of death, I show the peculiar and greater pain of divorce.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAll analogies have some weaknesses, and there is no pretension to having chronicled every aspect.  Even these are but scribbles.  But perhaps the pictures and journey will help a little.  If anything, I hope for an increase in sensitivity toward those going through a divorce, for it can be the most traumatic and painful event in a person's life – indeed, life-changing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor more information, go to www.preciousheart.net.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137732329712,"sku":"9781403375100","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781403375100_p0.jpg?v=1763715610","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781403375100","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}