Six Healing Questions: A Gentle Path to Facing Childhood Loss of a Parent

by Madonna Treadway

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Author: Madonna Treadway

Publisher: MCM Publishing

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ISBN 10: 098888822X
ISBN 13: 978-0988888227

There is magic to this life. Six Healing Questions: A Gentle Path to Healing Childhood Loss of a Parent is for anyone facing a well of grief. Written for adults who have lost a parent or parents at an early age, Madonna shares her own story of loss, asks gentle questions, provides tangible tools, and easy-to-understand research.Discover:• your hidden strength• your unique gifts• your path to wholeness.Six Healing Questions is about accepting your story and embracing hope. Grief is a journey, and beauty does await you. Join Madonna on this remarkable and sometimes surprising path toward healing.

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I could not put this book down and read it cover to cover in one sitting. The author promises to take us by the hand on this grief healing journey and she more than delivers. Her writing is so smooth it was like dark chocolate melting in my mouth. I was riveted by her personal story of early parental loss and liked her clear and useful steps in healing grief. She takes thorough measure of the current research on grief and creates a "spiral" system that is at once a simple and profound guide for healing. Brava!
--Vincentia Schroeter, PhD, psychotherapist and author of Communication Breakthrough, How Brain Science and Listening to Body Cues Can Transform Relationships.(2018)

"Insightful, full of heart, and wisdom, Treadway's Six Healing Questions handles a difficult subject with a deft and gentle touch. This succinct yet thorough book offers a guided pathway full of hope to help those who suffer from immense grief. An excellent and ultimately uplifting resource!"
--Cherie Kephart, award-winning author of A Few Minor Adjustments: A Memoir of Healing

Madonna Treadway shares her heartbreaking and harrowing journey of grief. She offers expert advice for those struggling from the pain of grief and loss. Ms. Treadway writes as if she were talking with a good friend. With warmth and wisdom, she offers sage advice for anyone suffering from grief and loss.
--Gina Simmons Schneider, Ph.D., Psychotherapist

"This is a beautifully written, well researched book with tons of exercises and meditations to take you up and down and then down and up the grief spiral. The intimate, honest, vulnerable tone of the narrator takes us by the hand and leads us through her life and her life's work to help others facing the loss of a parent. You feel hugged and taken care of as you dig deeper and unravel old feelings that may have been stuffed away for years and years. Even though the focus is on childhood loss of a parent, I feel anyone that is grieving would appreciate this book and learn coping skills and the reassurance that grief brings gifts and that there is always hope. I would highly recommend this book to anyone new to grief (from a loss of a pet to parent) or someone struggling with childhood wounds."
--Tracy Jean Jones, Author and Writing Coach

From the Author

I wrote A Gentle Path to Healing Childhood Loss of a Parent for anyone facing a well of grief. Written for adults who have lost a parent or parents at an early age, my story shares my own story of loss, asks gentle questions, provides tangible tools, and easy-to-understand research. I appreciate your interest.

About the Author

Madonna was born in rural North Dakota, the youngest of four children. Being the only girl with three older brothers and loving parents, life seemed perfect. Little did she know that her life would soon change drastically when both her parents died before she turned eight years old.

Still, life went on. Her family did not dwell on the past. In fact, it was not really talked about at all. The feeling was that nothing could be done about the past, so why bring it up? Best to move on and do what you can today. And so, as a child, Madonna learned to ignore her emotions and do what was needed without much drama.
This was her way of life until she reached her forties. It was at this point that she decided to explore what happened to her and how it had impacted her life. As she explored she remembered that as a child, after the death of her parents, she had often felt different from her peers, like she was on the outside looking in. She didn't tell anyone about how she felt, because on some level, she felt a sense of shame about feeling so different. No matter what she might have shared with anyone, her truth was that her parents had died, that still she had "been left."

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Six Healing Questions: A Gentle Path to Facing Childhood Loss of a Parent