Resilience by Elizabeth Edwards

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


With the recent passing of Elizabeth Edwards I decided to read her book RESILIENCE and learn more about how this woman was able to overcome so much - the loss of her 16 year-old son, the disintegration of her marriage, and the battle for her life (twice).

What came across in the book to me is simply a woman's life that was filled with pain. A life that did not turn out the way she had hoped. With each new adversity, she fell, hit bottom and then dug her way back up.

Her grief at the loss of her son was all consuming. All encompassing. As Americans, there are times when we have such romanticized notions of the "rich and famous". She disproves many of those notions.

She states on page 92 "Grief is a long process of untangling ourselves from the physical reality of the person and from our expectations of a future with them." How very true.



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