Anleitung zum Traurigsein

How I Learned to Live with Loss – and Became Someone Else.

When Berni Mayer's daughter Olivia dies from a brain tumor, the pain is overwhelming. The feeling of grief seeps into every aspect of his life. How can one live with such a loss? The author recounts his odyssey through grief, ultimately reaching a kind of truce to be able to move forward. He shares what has helped him and what hasn’t. Readers learn that sometimes you can dance away your grief, that nutrition or fitness training can be supportive, and how therapies and sometimes even psychotropic medications can help. Berni Mayer discovers the importance of self-efficacy and the role that meditation and Buddhist philosophy play in achieving inner peace. "A Guide to Being Sad" illustrates that and how one can learn to cope constructively with losses. It offers a sort of blueprint for grieving.