Turning Pain into Purpose
Pain has a way to alter us completely, be it our coping mechanism or the way we carry on for the rest of our lives. It breaks the patterns of our lives, upsets our ideologies, and compels us to consciously face things we do not want to be conscious of. There is in that disruption, though, the chance of something new, of making good out of pain. When the Grief Counsellor Becomes the Grieving Counsellor is a stunning statement of this concept. It traces the journey of Adrian, a devoted therapist whose life crashes as his wife dies slowly and painfully, and demonstrates how the grief of his loss is what the man uses to find the strength to continue living. Adrian was the one that others leaned on, a person who had a history of over twenty years. Almost all of his life he had assisted people with addiction, trauma and heartbreaking loss. His career was based on experience, empathy and professionalism. His whole life was destroyed when his wife died after a battle against a rare g...