While sadness is readily sanctioned in bereavement, other less comfortable emotions such as anger, regret, relief, guilt, joy, and desire are frequently considered taboos by those facing loss. Because research shows that a much larger pallet of feelings is common in those who are grieving, this module uses writing techniques to enlarge the space for …
Via (loopbaan)schrijven je eigen levensverhaal (re)construeren. In een steeds complexere wereld, waar mensen verwacht worden een actieve rol te spelen in het aanpakken van eigen (levens)problemen vb. werkloosheid, burn-out,(loopbaan)keuzes maken, … geeft schrijven een opportuniteit om op een betekenisvolle, diepgaande manier te reflecteren. Writing the Self is een methode om een ‘interne’ dialoog op gang …
Dr. Robert Neimeyer has invited me to present for the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition In lieu of an in-person book launch for “Writing the Self in Bereavement”, I will be doing several of these talks over the next little while. And maybe a Zoom “virtual launch” at some point! Here is the …
Updated: January, 2023 – My book on grief can be ordered with this 20% discount code – FLE22 or follow the link below “Part tribute, part love story, part memoir, part investigation into our most nascent drive to confront death on its own terms, Reinekke Lengelle’s Writing the Self in Bereavement: A Story of Love, …
To Forgive is Not a Verb: A reflection and Sawbonna “Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” Rumi In my book about grief and spousal loss, I talk about unfinished business and …
How we fell asleep I told you how my other lover had died how he had held me until he couldn’t and for a while his warm body was still familiar in my arms until, of course, death stiffened it and they laid a cooling element under what we still called him, but wasn’t. …
My book can be preordered from Routledge via this link: https://www.routledge.com/Writing-the-Self-in-Bereavement-A-Story-of-Love-Spousal-Loss-and-Resilience/Lengelle/p/book/9780367643348 “As human beings, we seek a life story we can make sense of, and that can make sense of us. In this autoethnography of loss, as lucid as it is captivating, Reinekke Lengelle not only reveals but also reflects candidly on her grief over …
Book cover image, “Widow maker” by Darrin Hartman My book will come out in hardcover, softcover and in electronic format by early 2021! It will be published with Routledge Writing the self in bereavement: a story of love, spousal loss, and resilience By Reinekke Lengelle Writing the self in bereavement is balm for readers experiencing …
In grief there were slow afternoons and swampy mid-day mornings of discombobulation there was waking with a leaden, burning heart and wondering why nature invented whimpering I watched myself as griever, as walker, as the woman who put brie on crackers and re-boiled water in the kettle five times If there is a “she” …
The “Widow Project” manuscript was the working title for the book described below that will be published with Routledge in 2021. Writing the Self in Bereavement: A story of Love, Spousal Loss, and Resilience by Reinekke Lengelle BOOK SUMMARY To lose loved ones is our common fate. Yet death is something we frequently (and perhaps wisely) …