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Lessons in Loss and Living by Michele A. Reiss
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Lessons in Loss and Living

Hope and Guidance for Confronting Serious Illness and Grief

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Narrator Renée Raudman

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Length 6 hours 21 minutes
Language English
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Dr. Michele A. Reiss specializes in helping clients cope with life-threatening illnesses and helping their families through the grieving process. A highly respected therapist, she counseled Randy and Jai Pausch as Randy was dying of pancreatic cancer.



Now Dr. Reiss provides comfort and counsel for listeners who are coping with the challenges of serious illness or grief. Through a collection of true-life examples, she has given us a book about hope and the art of living and loving well despite significant adversity. She shows us how to make the most of whatever time is left. And she shows families how to manage their own grief as they rebuild their lives after a major loss.



This inspiring book of true stories and helpful strategies will be an immense resource to anyone who is seriously ill and to family members who are acutely grieving.

Michele A. Reiss is the assistant program director and director of behavioral sciences for the UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Residency Program in Pittsburgh, where she also maintains a private psychotherapy practice. She is an adjunct assistant professor for the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine and Graduate School of Nursing. She lives in Pittsburgh and has two grown children, both psychologists.

Renee Raudman is a multi-award-winning audiobook narrator. A multiple Audie Award nominee, she has earned a number of AudioFile Earphones Awards, including for The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris and Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien, as well as a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award for Joe Schreiber's Chasing the Dead. She has also performed on film, TV, radio, and stage, including the recurring roles of Jordon on ABC's One Life To Live, Phyllis on NBC's Passions, and guest-starring roles on prime-time TV. She has been heard in cartoons (The Simpsons, Billy & Mandy), videogames, and on the E! channel. Her narration of Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper was selected by Library Journal as one of the best audiobooks of 2009, and her reading of Marthe Jocelyn's Would You was selected by the ALA as one of the best young adult audiobooks of 2009.

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"Randy Pausch often said how grateful he was to Dr. Reiss for her wise guidance. This beautiful book is fulfillment of Randy's wish." ---Jeffrey Zaslow, coauthor of The Last Lecture Expand reviews
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