This is the 5th edition of the grief/recovery classic - with new information on 'the new normal', 'keys to healing,' and coping with Alzheimer's/dementia. Loss can be overwhelming, and recovery often seems terribly daunting, if not impossible. But with great compassion, "Life after Loss" offers a way through it. Drawing on numerous first-hand stories and almost forty years of pastoral counselling to inform his advice, Pastor Bob Deits provides helpful exercises for navigating the uncertain terrain of loss and grief. From letting go of asking, 'Why?' to taking charge of grief and moving through it, "Life after Loss" is a classic in the field of grief recovery. It will help you find positive ways to put together a life that is necessarily different, but equally meaningful.This revised, updated edition will include two new chapters ('The Key to Healing' and 'Creating a New Normal'), with significant changes throughout: Chapter 12, 'Quiet Losses,' will be expanded to include a section on dementia (memory loss), including Alzheimer's disease. Deits' wife, June, has been lecturing on this topic in her Quiet Losses lectures. She has been diagnosed with MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment, which is likely very early stage Alzheimer's. She will write this portion of the chapter with Deits, as she did with the 4th edition. Chapter 11, 'Beliefs that Help or Hurt' and Chapter 14, 'Losses in Later Life', will also have substantial additions.