Most books on loss focus on the "big" losses (death, illness,

divorce) or on specific losses (relationships, jobs, pets, memory

loss, financial loss). Going beyond loss as a problem to be

resolved, a grief to be worked through, Dr. Copeland-Payton

reframes loss from the perspective that our everyday losses

help us learn what we need to handle the major losses.

Weaving in spiritual and archetypal themes, personal and

scriptural story, the author poses that by becoming aware of

what our lesser losses have to teach us, the larger losses of our

lives become not so terrifying.

"When we intentionally enter into our everyday walk through

small losses, the terrain of larger loss and the valley of the

shadow of death is not totally unknown. It is not completely

unfamiliar, alien, terrifying, for we have walked some of this

way before with our lesser losses. We can journey through this

valley of loss, for journey through it we must. And we can

emerge markedly changed, but alive, on the other sid