I wrote Beyond Here There Be Dragons because I noticed that most of the books about grief seldom look beyond the first year or so after a loss. Few of them acknowledge that the life transition that follows loss can take a few more years to navigate.

Instead of using river imagery, this time I played with the "waves" of grief metaphor in a different way; visualizing that those waves have flung you far out to sea. With no wind in your sails and no land in sight, you are left to wonder, "Where do I go from here?" or even, "What's the point?"

This is not a self-help book that promises, "ten easy steps to a new you," instead it is a reflection on the stories I've heard from clients who have faced their own "dragons" and lived to tell the tale. Along the way, I tell a few stories of my own making, (what I call, modern myths) that help to illustrate the point that, we don't have to be afraid of the dragons we encounter, it's even possible to make friends with them.

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