Book One of ten
Loss of Meaning
Reference book, included with Membership
Book One is the reference for how every book connects. It is included with AVAIA Membership, together with its companion workbook. Each of its four threads is established, and each links to a page that already exists on AVAIA.
Read the book and its workbook
The book and its companion workbook are included with AVAIA Membership and with authorized Guide status. Each opens in your browser, and you can also download it or print it.
The book
A Day in the Life of Grief, Book One: Loss of Meaning
The full book, with the myth, the secondary loss, the virtue, the life lesson, and your reflection questions.
The companion workbook
A Day in the Life of Grief, Companion Workbook One: Loss of Meaning
Use it alongside the book. Each exercise gives you room to work with one of the book’s reflection questions.
Four threads
Begin with any of them. There is no order, and nothing here needs finishing.
Thread
The Myth
“Grief only happens when someone dies.”
Explored in the book. Defying Grief carries this myth into its InnerCompass conversation.
Thread
The Secondary Loss
Loss of Meaning
Read how AVAIA names this loss, or see the Library entries filed under it.
Thread
The Virtue Family
Gratitude
This book connects to the Gratitude family in the Chemistry of Virtue. Which elements, if any, you recognize in yourself is yours to decide.
Thread
The Life Lesson
The Value of the Hike
From The View From Above: The Loss of Meaning. The class is live; its life-lesson narrative is still being written.
If you want to talk it through
Reading never starts or changes a conversation. To go on with a conversation you have already begun, open your Journey. The class page above also offers to begin a private conversation, and that begins a new one only if you are not already in one. The first conversation is free; the second and third are part of AVAIA Membership.
With a Guide, or in a Shared Room
A Certified AVAIA Guide can walk through this material with you, one-on-one or with a group in a Shared Room. Each person’s private conversation stays their own.
What is yours to keep
- JournalSign-in
A private place to write. It is yours alone.
- WorkbookSign-in
Where your conversations and what you choose to keep gather.
- Virtue SignatureSign-in
Where you choose to keep a virtue you recognize in yourself, in your own words.
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