Carol Kearns

Sugar Cookies and a Nightmare: How My Daughter's Death Taught Me the Meaning of Life Carol Kearns

When her 7-year-old daughter was swept out to sea by a rogue wave in 1976, Carol Kearns thought she would lose her sanity. Trying to be strong for her 9-year-old son, she met with the late Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who taught Carol a new concept called "grief therapy" and encouraged her to become a psychologist in her own right. In this uplifting memoir, Carol recalls her 24 years as a grief specialist, corrects a misguided radio host she calls "Dr. Expert" and reveals her own battle with post-traumatic stress disorder after her son, a naval flight surgeon, was deployed to Iraq.