When my father passed unexpectedly, I was despondent. One thing I remember was the Amazon lovebomb I got from my high school girlfriend Sunaina Sondhi, five books to help me deal with the pain. Even a decade after we dated, books were her love language; in fact, she had given me my very first book about meditation when we were teenagers. I don’t recall what all the books were, but the two that really made a difference for me were Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s and David Kessler’s posthumous book On Grief and Grieving, and the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Each allowed me to process and understand the emotions I was going through.
When my father passed unexpectedly, I was despondent. One thing I remember was the Amazon lovebomb I got from my high school girlfriend Sunaina Sondhi, five books to help me deal with the pain. Even a decade after we dated, books were her love language; in fact, she had given me my very first book about meditation when we were teenagers. I don’t recall what all the books were, but the two that really made a difference for me were Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s and David Kessler’s posthumous book On Grief and Grieving, and the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Each allowed me to process and understand the emotions I was going through.