Inside Grief

By Stephen Oliver

The book explores the reality of grief from different perspectives and provides some insightful help primarily to those trying to support a colleague, friend or family member who is being overwhelmed by their primal grief, Though the book will contain important and practical material for those who are poleaxed by grief, the focus will be on those around them who are struggling to understand, and feel that sense of helplessness in knowing what to do and say for the best.

• Language: English
• Publisher: SPCK
• Release date: Mar 21, 2013
• ISBN: 9780281068449

Stephen Oliver

Stephen has been interested in personal growth and the bringing out of the best of people’s potential for well over 40 years. Even as a computer programmer and systems analyst since the beginning of the ’80s, his aim has always been to improve the quality of life for himself and others. This interest led him to learn about psychology and growth techniques, resulting in his becoming an NLP Practitioner (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) in 1993.At the beginning of 1994, he came into contact with Reiki, attending a First Degree Reiki seminar run by a Reiki Master of The Reiki Network® with his parents. Seeing the improvements that Reiki brought to the whole family, they quickly went on to the Second Degree. It became apparent to him that Reiki was one of the best tools for the non-invasive support of personal growth that he’d encountered, so he applied for training as a Reiki Master within the Network. He finished his year’s training mid-1996, and now gives treatments and teaches Reiki in English and German, in England, Switzerland and Spain.In 2004, he began a training course as an adult educator, which he completed in the following year. As part of his training, he created the written training concept that The Reiki Network® now uses.In 2013, he published his first self-help book and is now a full-time writer. He started working on a follow-up self-help book as soon as the previous one was published. However, he has since started writing fiction, with genres including science fiction, space opera, fantasy, urban fantasy, magical realism, horror, fairy tales, fairy stories, noir, detective fiction, action, thriller, humour, YA, and children's stories. He is presently seeking to publish four anthologies and two novels while working on another three anthologies and three novels.