Introduction : welcome to the club --
ch. 1. Initiating change : when a child or someone we deeply love dies --
ch. 2. Remembering changes : facing Alzheimer's disease --
ch. 3. Touch that changes : when we don't feel blessed --
ch. 4. Changing bad into betterment : when we lose our health --
ch. 5. Breaking into change : losing someone to suicide --
ch. 6. Wrestling with change : losing marriage, career, and home --
ch. 7. Destined to change : when dreams die --
ch. 8. Betting on change : when childhood grief makes an encore --
ch. 9. Spare change : making the most of what we have --
ch. 10. Dying to change : facing death --
ch. 11. Cool change : when doctors aren't enough --
ch. 12. Facing change : losing a parent to alcoholism --
ch. 13. Restraining change : when grief makes us vulnerable --
ch. 14. Time changes : the empty nest and other rites of passage --
ch. 15. Cheap change : when it really could have been worse --
ch. 16. Changed by love : making peace with adoption --
ch. 17. Ex-change : making peace with the past --
Appendix : Master loss checklist --
