The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments
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Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Written By: William Bridges
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.24
EAN: 9780738205298
ISBN: 073820529X
Label: Da Capo Press
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2001-12
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date: 2001-12-04
Studio: Da Capo Press
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Editorial Reviews for The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments
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The author of the best-selling Transitions turns inward, revealing how personal tragedy can yield growth and rejuvenation. William Bridges' lifelong work has been devoted to a deep understanding of transitions and to helping others through them. When his own wife of thirty-five years died of cancer, however, he was thrown head-first into the kind of painful and confusing abyss he had known before only in theory. An honest account of being in transition, this uncommonly wise and moving book is a richly textured map of the personal, professional, and emotional transformations that grow out of tragedy and crisis. Demonstrating how disillusionment, sorrow, or confusion can blossom into a time of incredible creativity and contentment, Bridges highlights the profound significance and value of endings in our lives.
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Summary: Classic work on transitions
Comment: Bridges book makes a great contribution by describing the stages within a transition -- endings, the neutral zone (that awkward in-between place in transitions) and new beginnings. I use this concept often when coaching ministry leaders in transition. The book is somewhat profane but includes excellent, universal concepts about how humans experience transitions. You can find similar concepts worked out for ministry settings in Coaching Transitions: Walking with Leaders in the Turning Points of Life.
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Summary: A Guide Through Life's Dark Night
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I often list the pros and cons of the books I review. This book, like most others, has a few drawbacks, but they are not important enough to list. What is important is to know that this book is one of the best guides possible for those who are going through losses and do not know where to turn. If you or someone you know is reeling from a major life set back this is the book you need to turn to. This book will help you process the loss, understand the empty feeling that follows, and will offer hope for a new beginning. This book is a first aid kit for the emotions.
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Summary: Emotionally Powerful, Personalized Take on Transitions
Comment: William Bridges revisits the topic of transitions after the death of his first wife. This is an emotionally powerful book and Bridges is brutally honest and open about his own personality and relationships. I give it 4 stars, though, because I'm not sure that he adds a whole lot to his orginal work on transitions.
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Summary: Getting personal wth William Bridges, Transition Guru
Comment: William Bridges surprised me with this extremely well-written and personal book. I am an executive coach who had read many of his other books and have often recommended Bridge's Managing Transitions to clients and friends in the business world. I opened the book expecting to find a how-to manual on getting through midlife in business,or through the loss of a job or some other similarly difficult but containable business transition. What I found was a deeply personal (and to me intensely meaningful description of) William's own life transitions through his job changes, marriage difficulties, and most significantly the death of his first wife and the transition that ensued. This beautifully written book reads more like a novel than a self help book, but the fact that it describes real transitions at a very deep level is exactly what makes it helpful. I congratulate the author for having the guts to write it.
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Summary: Adjusting to change
Comment: The author is very professional in his knowledge of tranistion vs. change and the merging of the process so that one understands the need to understand transition and that understanding to facilitate change. It is a very personal account of his understanding of the value of "letting go". His wife of 48 years is about to pass and the culmination of their realtionship and acceptance of the change to come and the phases of tranistion. To me personally, the acceptance of "letting go" allowed me to move further into my life and relish the anticipation of what could be. But not until I "let go". To me that was an exceptional development. And it all had to do with understanding transition. I am deeply grateful as is my wife who is reading it now.
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