Mourning Has Broken - Softcover

B'Hahn, Carmella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1902733053 ISBN 13: 9781902733050

Publisher: Crucible Publishers (UK), 2002

Synopsis

This book is about transformation through adversity. It is for anyone feeling tested by life, especially those struggling with grief from any cause or working in the fields of healing, counselling, or bereavement. It is a book full of riveting stories from those who have broken through rather than broken down, stories that lighten the spirit and offer a collective blueprint for human potential in the face of difficulty. Author Carmella BHahn speaks from a place of deep personal experience. Her five-year-old son, Benjaya, drowned in a river in England in 1992 -- an event that subsequently became her greatest teacher. In 1997, she began a quest to determine whether those who face traumatic challenges in life have the greatest opportunity to wake up from automatic pilot and discover their innate resilience. By interviewing people who have experienced and healed from the effects of major adversity, she sought to discover what keys allow us to thrive rather than just survive.Interviewees whose healing stories appear in the book, include Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Hafsat Abiola, whose parents were both assassinated in Nigeria for fighting for democracy, Cambodian and Bosnian children of war, individuals who have faced AIDS, cancer, a car crash, a house fire, divorce, death of a child, suicide of loved ones, a fireman who worked in the heart of the rubble on September 11th in New York City, and many more. The personal stories, which represent people from different ethnicities, economic levels, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, and disabilities, take people on a voyage of discovery, inspiring new perspectives on traumatic events and offering practical keys to effective living. After each section of the book, there are questions and reflections to help readers internalize the content of the book in a real and self-revealing manner.

About this title

About the Author:

Carmella B’Hahn is English by birth. She trained initially in art and photography, and went on to work with magazine layout, writing, and editing. She has been studying and working in the field of personal transformation for over 20 years. In 1984, she co-founded MetaCentre - a teaching and healing center in England and later created BirthWorks (now sold and franchised), which offers support services for holistic childbirth and waterbirth. For several years she assisted women though the major initiation of giving birth.

In 1992, Carmella experienced the sudden and shocking death of her five-year old son, Benjaya, who drowned in a local river. Subsequently, she began working with and writing about death and healing through adversity. Her writings, on both birth and death, have been published in many journals and she has been featured on television and radio. Carmella is the author of two books -- Benjaya’s Gifts (Hazelwood Press, England, 1996), the intimate true story of the phenomenal learning from her son’s birth and death and MOURNING HAS BROKEN: Learning from the Wisdom of Adversity (Crucible Publishing, Bath, England, 2002).

Carmella is a trained bereavement counselor. She has a diploma in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and has studied Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication - training that she uses in her grief counseling sessions with clients. Her greatest passion is helping others to raise a phoenix from the ashes of life. For the past decade, she has been developing holistic approaches to life transitions, trauma and death, and currently conducts workshops on these themes in the UK and the US.

At present she lives in south west England with her son, Asher, and travels frequently to the United States to conduct workshops and be part of the Project Renewal Retreat Staff – a project supporting the ongoing healing of school personnel from the ‘Ground Zero’ schools, New York City.

Review:

..". illuminates a practical framework for healing from loss and trauma an that help put suffering in a wider and richer context."

About this edition

• Publisher: Crucible Publishers (UK)
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1902733053
• ISBN 13: 9781902733050
• Binding: Paperback