Four Funerals and a Wedding: Resilience in a Time of Grief

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By Jill Smolowe ’77

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(She Writes Press) After losing four loved ones in the space of 17 months, Smolowe expected to fall apart. She didn’t. Instead she discovered a surprising resilience, a result she soon understood to be the experience of a silent majority among the grief-stricken. In Four Funerals and a Wedding, Smolowe focuses on what allowed her to cultivate this resilience and rebound from tragedy. Jill Smolowe is an award-winning journalist and certified grief and transition coach.

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