| Some of life’s most
intimate and enlightening moments occur when we are taking care of an
ailing parent or when we are living in the grief and new insights after
they have made their transition. Fayegail Mandell Bisaccia’s profound
book has a wealth of wisdom about this very important journey and I
recommend you let yourself dance with it. Your spiritual life and your
family life will be so much deeper as a result.
Leonard Felder,
PhD,
author of The Ten Challenges
An intimate, inspiring,
useful and moving account of one woman’s journey, through grieving, to
the acceptance of her mother’s death. But it is more
than that. It provides a window into the way a deep belief in an inner
power and strength can carry us through any painful time. Ms. Bisaccia
uses the beauty and wisdom of her Jewish faith as one pane of that
window. It is an interesting, deeply introspective entrée into a
modern perspective of Judaism. However, one does not need to be Jewish
to recognize and identify with the universal wisdom expressed in her
journey.
Mary Margaret
Moore,
author of I Come as a Brother
Fayegail Bisaccia has
given us a loving gift in her brave, intimate and transparent journal
of her journey into love and learning, grieving and healing as she
reckons with and struggles with her parents’ mortality. The collective
wisdom of this family, their fears, humor, and candor, provides a
richness that can inform and inspire anyone who will some day be
present for and helping a loved one who is dying . . . that is, all of
us.
Rabbi Marc Sirinsky
Dancing in My Mother’s Slippers is
a valuable tool for hospice and grief work . . . a great read for book
groups . . . a book to bring people together. Reading this book with my
ninety-year-old mother made it a lot easier for us to face this passage
together. It opened the door to a whole series of rich and intimate
talks between us. I’m grateful to have found this book for my own
journey and for my work with clients.
Georgia Moriarty
King, mental health therapist
It is beautiful,
profound, honest, well-written and riveting. Grief weaves its way into
her daily life in unexpected ways. Resolution, or at least a deeper
level of peace for her, comes only after time passes. We see her
humanity (she is like us) and then we witness her extraordinarily brave
spiritual quest. It gives us courage to look deeper at our own
experiences, to hang in there on our own spiritual journey. That is one
reason, I think, why she chose to write this book. It succeeds
beautifully.
Anne Batzer
Dancing in My Mother’s Slippers is
a wonderful day-to-day unfolding of personal grief and family intimacy
which leads to a transcendent view—this is where the value lies.
Olive Streit,
counselor
What made the book
worthy is that it is about the living, not the grieving. It isn’t regretful. It is about
a life that is full of love and honor for parents. It’s a model for
relationship.
Judith Visser,
Jewish educator
It talks to the heart,
not to the head. It’s a word-of-mouth kind
of book. I would definitely recommend it to my bereaved clients.
Sister Dorothy
Pulkka, OSB, grief counselor
I found out I am
grieving in a much deeper and more profound way than I had understood
or acknowledged before I read Slippers.
During this year I never thought to seek out other literature on
grieving because I thought I had moved on. I went back to everything in
my life right away. I thought I didn’t need to grieve, at
least not
much.
Kait Fairchild
People who have been
through it will find comfort in her honest and compassionate treatment
of medical issues.
Ellen Marks
Dancing in My Mother’s Slippers is
sensitively and artistically written. Her voice is authentic,
self-revealing and forthright. The structure is like a symphony—loving
relationships at the crescendo, great beauty, a sense of peace and
maturity.
Ann Macrory
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