The Seven T's: Finding Hope and Healing in the Wake of Tragedy - Hardcover

Judy Collins has recorded forty-three albums over her long and illustrious career. With several top-ten hits, Grammy nominations, and gold and platinum albums to her credit, she now also has her own label, Wildflower Records. The author of Sanity and Grace, and Morning, Noon and Night, Collins lives in New York City.

In this solid, heartfelt guide to grief and tragedy, author and singer-songwriter Collins (Morning, Noon, and Night) culls from her own experience (the suicide of her 33-year-old son in 1992) and the experiences of others a set of tools to help "dig your way out of tragedy and loss": truth (tell it), trust (allow it), therapy (get it), treasure (your loved and lost), treat (your body and mind), thrive (without drugs or alcohol) and transcend. Conceptualized as a way to better navigate Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's stages of grief, Collins's seven T's aren't chronological steps, but "a kind of mantra" in seven parts that's durable enough to assist readers for a lifetime ("Time will heal us, yes, but...love does not end"). Through the T's, Collins deals honestly with the demons of loss-guilt, isolation, hopelessness, depression, violence, etc.
while detailing many practical, proactive ways to cope, carry on and continue healing.
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