Dancing in My Mother’s Slippers
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.
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