Dr. Charlotte Mathes' new book, And a Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart: Moving from Despair to Meaning after the Death of a Child, reports and reflects on her story about the loss of her son, and those of many others in similar situations with whom she later worked as therapist and researcher.  Her recurrent themes are the profundity of mother grief and the deep tasks such mourning women must complete to heal themselves.  

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