How do we live as our parents grow older and die?
Fayegail
Mandell Bisaccia ponders this and other questions in her candid and
insightful journal. With her own honesty, she encourages us to look
deeper, to be aware of our impact on those we love. She encourages us
to start conversations now which will open our hearts to healing
communication with our parents and with our children as we ask these
questions of ourselves.
Dancing in My
Mother’s Slippers begins as Fayegail’s mother is diagnosed with
ovarian
cancer. We follow Fayegail through the shock, the plans, the final
months, weeks, and days of her mother’s life. We see first hand what
she experiences at the loss of her mother with whom she shared a rich
and caring friendship.
We witness the
death, the Jewish bereavement practices, the dawning of grief as a new
sense of reality sets in.
The story
continues as Fayegail experiences the ebb and flow of grief. We watch,
through her eyes, as the family begins to heal and supports their
father in his grief, his gradual healing, his return to a more active
life, and ultimately through his final illness and death. We come to
know that grief is not something one gets over, but rather something
that one integrates into one’s life, into oneself.
Fayegail shares
the spiritual practices upon which she relies to sustain her in her
grief and in all the parts of her life. We see a profound integration
of the various aspects of herself as she perseveres in living a life of
mindfulness and wellbeing.
Dancing in My
Mother’s Slippers presents us with a model for family
relationships,
for healing and for living.
Conversations About the
Book
Fayegail
invites readers to participate in discussions of Dancing in My Mother’s
Slippers as a way to explore personal spirituality in the
context of
grief and healing. A book group guide
can be
found at the back of the book and also on this website.
Joining a Discussion Group
If you would
like to organize a discussion group or to be notified of
discussion groups in your community, send an email to:
An Opportunity to Talk
with Fayegail
Fayegail
makes available a limited number of thirty-minute telephone
consultations each week on a donation basis. She offers to answer your
questions about Dancing in My
Mother’s Slippers, and she is willing to
talk with you, as a lay person, about things that came up for you as
you
read the book. Please note that she is not a professional grief
counselor or therapist.
Donations
can be made to one of the organizations listed below, or to a
hospice,
bereavement center or peace-making organization of your choice. These
organizations, and others like them, do much to heal our communities.
Each person served by them enhances our entire community—and by the web
of our connections, our entire nation and our world. We can only
improve our situation one moment, one person at a
time.
WinterSpring
Center for Living with
Loss and Grief
PO
Box 8169
Medford,
OR 97501
541.772.2527
Asante Hospice Services
2960
Doctor’s Park Drive
Medford,
OR 97504
541.789.5005
Mediation Works
33
North Central, Suite 306
Medford,
OR 97501-5939
541.770.2468 |
To
Schedule an
Appointment
- Contact Fayegail at fayegail@griefandhealing.net.
- Include your phone
number and
e-mail address.
- Mention three times when
you would be
available for an appointment (best days, best times of day).
- Specify your time zone.
- Mention the hours
during which you can be reached by phone, that is, after what hour in
the morning, and before what hour in the evening.
- All appointments will
be confirmed by e-mail.
- A verification from you
is necessary to
hold the appointment.
Note: In
order to make this opportunity available to more people,
please do not request more than one appointment.
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