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Sascha Wagner Estate, Alexandra

 
9781893652187: For You From Sascha

Synopsis

Sascha has become a familiar name for many grievers, bereaved families, and their friends. Her understanding of loss and grief is based on personal experience and is expressed with a purposeful simplicity of language. Once again, Saschas words provide for deep feeling and easy reading, the perfect gift to grievers, new or old. You will reach for this book again and again - for a brief moment, or for a whole evening. For a time, you may want to keep it with you as a daily companion and indispensable friend. Dr. Barbara Weinrich, bereaved parent.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Sascha was born in Bremen, Germany (of Bremen Town musicians' fame). She emigrated to the United States in 1947 and studied literature and history at the Universities of Colorado (B.A.) and Denver (M.A.).Sascha's daughter Eve was born in November 1950; her son Nino arrived in October 1953. Nino drowned three and a half years later, and on the 15th anniversary of his death, Eve died of suicide.After spending some thirty years in various areas of mental health work, Sascha initiated a professional support service for persons with panic disorders and/or agoraphobia. For the last 16 years, she has been providing bereavement care and grief support, often by telephone. She has provided workshops in Germany, in Canada, and at IN LOVING MEMORY conferences, as well as speaking to Compassionate Friends groups and conference audiences. In 1998, Sascha was honored with the award for TCF Professional of the Year. After several years as editor of The Compassionate Friends' Central Iowa Chapter, Sascha started the quarterly publication of L.A.R.G.O. (Life After Repeated Grief: Options) which has a farflung readership in the USA, Canada, Germany, South Africa and Australia.Other than three smaller volumes of writing, Sascha has published "The Sorrow And The Light" (1992) and "Wintersun" (1996).Sascha now lives in retirement near Denver, Colorado under the careful supervision of the feline pundits Puczicam and Susie Q. (and an occasional stray), who help to find all the papers, keys, glasses, hearing aids and garage door openers Sascha regularly misplaces.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Sascha has become a familiar name for many grievers, bereaved families, and their friends. Her understanding of loss and grief is based on personal experience and is expressed with a purposeful simplicity of language. Once again, Saschas words provide for deep feeling and easy reading, the perfect gift to grievers, new or old. You will reach for this book again and again - for a brief moment, or for a whole evening. For a time, you may want to keep it with you as a daily companion and indispensable friend. Dr. Barbara Weinrich, bereaved parent.

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