Ashley Davis Bush (formerly Prend), LCSW, ACSW is a psychotherapist and grief counselor in private practice in Epping, New Hampshire. She is also a writer and the author of several self-help books: Transcending Loss and Claim Your Inner Grown-up. Her work focuses on coping with losses, searching for meaning, maximizing one’s potential, finding inner peace, and navigating transitions. Currently she is working on a book entitled, “Shortcuts to Inner Peace: 50 Quickies for Frazzled Folks.”
Transcending Loss
Understanding the Lifelong Impact of Loss and How to Make it Meaningful (Berkley Books, 1997)
Transcending Loss has helped thousands and thousands of grievers understand how to grieve and how to live with loss. Unlike other grief books that imply there is an “end” to the process, this book acknowledges and honors the lifelong process of integrating loss into life. It also shows how to channel pain into avenues that make meaning out of loss.
Beginning the Journey through Grief (video 3 min)
Excercises for grievers: a supplement to Transcending Loss
Claim Your Inner Grown-Up
4 Essential Steps to Authentic Adulthood (Plume Books, 2001)
From the Back Cover
A much needed antidote to the indulgent trends of recent years. Claim Your Inner Grown-up will help us become authentic adults without losing the innocence, freedom, and wonder that are also an integral part of our psychological makeup and help make us who we are.
Erwachsen -Verfügbar auf Deutsch…. also available in German. Order here.
If Buddha Grieved
Bringing Buddhist Practice to Grief Counseling
(audio course for professionals)
Course Description
Even though grief and bereavement can help us evolve into more authentic, grown-up selves, counseling clients overwhelmed by raw suffering in the wake of a severe loss can be a tough, slow, frustrating process. In this course, we’ll explore how bringing a Buddhist perspective and practice into therapy with bereaved clients not only enhances clinical work, but helps minimize compassion fatigue in practitioners.
