The Dr. Pat Show: Talk Radio to Thrive By!: The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Can Tell Us about Life after Loss with author and expert George Bonanno, Ph.D.

We tend to understand grief as a predictable five-stage process of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. But in The Other Side of Sadness, George Bonanno shows that our conventional model discounts our capacity for resilience. In fact, he reveals that we are already hardwired to deal with our losses efficiently not by graduating through static phases.