What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger: Turning Bad Breaks Into Blessings
In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center, libraries  are looking to update their collections on dealing with grief.  As good as such classics as Harold Kushner's When Bad Things  Happen to Good People may be, they suddenly seem outdated. This  is the chief premise of Jampolsky's Healing Together. Jampolsky  takes a spiritual approach to healing, including as many faith  systems as possible and hence providing a global perspective  consistent with his premise that the September 11 attacks call  for a worldview. A psychologist and motivational speaker,  Jampolsky divides his book into three parts, starting with a  foundation for dealing with tragedy, then moving on to eight  steps to "Personal Growth and Global Healing," and finishing  with how to build a positive future, including how to help  children and communities cope.   The mother of a daughter crippled in a car crash, Schnall writes  from the perspective of someone who has experienced grief  directly, and she deals with people as individuals. Her book  feels both more emotional and less spiritual than Jampolsky's,  and it is also less structured despite its proposing four stages  of dealing with tragedy. Schnall, the founder of Wives Self Help  Foundation, shares story after story of people dealing with  tragedy, including the World Trade Center collapse. Both books  are well written and easy to read, and both give useful advice  and are illustrated with inspiring stories. Readers will find  more practical suggestions in Jampolsky's book and more  inspiration and emotional support in Schnall's, but both are  good choices for general collections.David Leonhardt, TorontoCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.