{"product_id":"hold-fast-navigating-personal-and-climate-grief-with-a-reconciled-heart-paperback","title":"Hold Fast: Navigating Personal and Climate Grief with a Reconciled Heart - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWendy A. Sarkissian\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendy Sarkissian PhD is one of Australia's most decorated environmental ethicists and community planners, and co-author of the landmark \u003cem\u003eHousing as if People Mattered\u003c\/em\u003e (University of California Press, revised 2023) and \u003cem\u003eCreative Community Planning\u003c\/em\u003e (Earthscan\/Routledge, 2010), Life Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia, and recipient of more than forty professional awards. She has spent fifty years listening to what communities and the living world need.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHold Fast: Navigating Personal and Climate Grief with a Reconciled Heart \u003c\/em\u003eis what that lifetime of listening produced when loss arrived in its most shattering personal form: the sudden death of her husband Karl in a car accident, leaving her to navigate personal grief and climate grief simultaneously, in the same broken-open heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendy does not come to grief as a bystander. She had spent decades in the field of environmental ethics, working with communities across Australia and beyond to name and honour what is lost when the Earth is damaged. When Karl died, she discovered that the grief she had learned to hold for the living world was the same grief that now held her. The two could not be separated. \u003cem\u003eHold Fast \u003c\/em\u003eis the account of learning to carry both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the wisdom of Joanna Macy, Francis Weller, Sharon Blackie, and the deep ecology tradition, Hold Fast maps a path through four \u003cem\u003eStopping Places: Acceptance, Gratitude, Forgiveness, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Service\u003c\/em\u003e. This book is for the climate-aware griever who loves the Earth as fiercely as she loves a person.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHold Fast\u003c\/em\u003e offers what almost no grief book dares: a framework that holds personal loss and ecological grief in the same compassionate gaze, written by a woman with the credentials, the courage, and the lived experience to do so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook 2 of the Twilight River Trilogy. Also available: \u003cem\u003e Creeksong\u003c\/em\u003e (Book 1) and \u003cem\u003eOpening to Climate Grief \u003c\/em\u003e(Book 3).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Joanna Macy, Francis Weller, Sharon Blackie, and Mary Oliver.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 490\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.09 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924618182963,"sku":"9781067945602","price":30.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/YOwshbSwyp9781067945602.webp?v=1793832673","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/hold-fast-navigating-personal-and-climate-grief-with-a-reconciled-heart-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}