Bearing the Unbearable
Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

One thing I learned when I lost my mom is that grief is overwhelming, and that no one in common society really talks about what to do with it, or even what it's like. There's this idea I had, that I'm pretty sure I pieced together from books and movies and TV, that after a few months of grieving you......more

It has taken me quite a long time to put into words how I feel about this book. I've had kind of a dual/parallel experience as I've worked through it. I can relate in many ways to the words that Dr. Jo has written because I have lost two children. My daughter, Jada Soleil, and my son, Jordan Vaughn,......more

An accessible and emotionally intelligent book about navigating grief. I appreciated the themes Joanne Cacciatore imbedded in Bearing the Unbearable, especially the importance of staying present with one’s painful emotions related to grief instead of trying to rush through them. She includes moving......more

I appreciate the place where Joanne Cacciatore was coming from when she wrote this book, having lost her own infant daughter. But I felt something was missing from this book that deals with the universal human experience of grieving. It appears other reviewers felt the same way, but sometimes they st......more

I feel a little crazy because this book seems to be so beloved but I really struggled with it. My grief is chronic and perhaps if it were acute, this book would resonate with me more. I think the main audience would be those with acute traumatic grief, specifically parents who have lost children. Th......more