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  • Necessary Losses

  • The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow
  • By: Judith Viorst
  • Narrated by: Donna Postel
  • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (101 ratings)

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Necessary Losses

By: Judith Viorst
Narrated by: Donna Postel
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Drawing on psychoanalysis, literature, and personal experience, Necessary Losses is a philosophy for understanding and accepting life's inevitabilities. In this book Judith Viorst turns her considerable talents to a serious and far-reaching subject: how we grow and change through the losses that are certain and necessary parts of life. She argues persuasively that through the loss of our mothers' protection, the loss of the impossible expectations we bring to relationships, the loss of our younger selves, and the loss of our loved ones through separation and death, we gain deeper perspective, true maturity, and fuller wisdom about life. She has written a book that is both life affirming and life changing.

©1986 Judith Viorst (P)2015 Tantor

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