{"product_id":"gone-before-gone-when-mental-illness-steals-someone-you-love-9781958861967","title":"Gone Before Gone: When Mental Illness Steals Someone You Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow to survive ambiguous loss, by a mom who lost her son to psychosis and then to suicide.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat mom expects her honor-student son to one day barricade a bathroom in their home to lock away \"demons?\" Who can imagine a beloved child behind jail Plexiglas, his eyes vacant? How does a mom sleep knowing her son is homeless, sleeping rough in a city park, his life tattered by his disordered mind? In \u003cem\u003eGone Before Gone\u003c\/em\u003e, Clark describes her son's \"death by degrees\" during a young adulthood wrecked by severe mental illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurviving a parent's nightmare led to Clark's memoir of self-help-a toolkit for living with \"ambiguous loss,\" a term coined by Pauline Boss, PhD, an academic, author, and long-time family therapist. Trained by Boss herself, Clark has blended Boss' concepts with her own experiences and the coping skills she's cultivated as a long-time yoga teacher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a book like none other. Part memoir, part survival guide, complete with practical exercises. You'll feel as though a kind mom is holding your hand and helping you breathe as you bravely take one step at a time toward healing yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClark, Jerri Niebaum:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jerri Clark is a professional mental health advocate and an award-winning journalist who lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she surfs, practices yoga, and is gramma to two young boys. Her son, Calvin, died from his severe mental illness in 2019, when he was 23. Clark manages a resource center and supports and trains families for the non-profit Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC). TAC's focus is severe mental illness (SMI), which means psychotic conditions that are life-altering. Clark has shared her story and advocacy points on numerous print and broadcast platforms, including \"PBS News Hour\" and The Seattle Times. As a yoga teacher for more than 20 years, she sees her ambiguous loss work as a coalescence of the self-discoveries from those practices alongside her journalism, advocacy, and lived experience as a mom stretching to survive a loss beyond human expectation.","brand":"Sager Group LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52078048477458,"sku":"9781958861967","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2d614549-0f7c-4dde-93af-b7cb20286df9.jpg?v=1773151691","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gone-before-gone-when-mental-illness-steals-someone-you-love-9781958861967","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}