Gone Before Gone: When Mental Illness Steals Someone You Love by Clark, Jerri Niebaum
Gone Before Gone: When Mental Illness Steals Someone You Love by Clark, Jerri Niebaum

Gone Before Gone: When Mental Illness Steals Someone You Love

How to survive ambiguous loss, by a mom who lost her son to psychosis and then to...
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Author: Jerri Niebaum Clark
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Language: English
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Gone Before Gone: When Mental Illness Steals Someone You Love by Clark, Jerri Niebaum

Gone Before Gone: When Mental Illness Steals Someone You Love

$25.18
Gone Before Gone: When Mental Illness Steals Someone You Love by Clark, Jerri Niebaum

Gone Before Gone: When Mental Illness Steals Someone You Love

$25.18
Author: Jerri Niebaum Clark
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

How to survive ambiguous loss, by a mom who lost her son to psychosis and then to suicide.

What mom expects her honor-student son to one day barricade a bathroom in their home to lock away "demons?" Who can imagine a beloved child behind jail Plexiglas, his eyes vacant? How does a mom sleep knowing her son is homeless, sleeping rough in a city park, his life tattered by his disordered mind? In Gone Before Gone, Clark describes her son's "death by degrees" during a young adulthood wrecked by severe mental illness.

Surviving a parent's nightmare led to Clark's memoir of self-help-a toolkit for living with "ambiguous loss," a term coined by Pauline Boss, PhD, an academic, author, and long-time family therapist. Trained by Boss herself, Clark has blended Boss' concepts with her own experiences and the coping skills she's cultivated as a long-time yoga teacher.

The result is a book like none other. Part memoir, part survival guide, complete with practical exercises. You'll feel as though a kind mom is holding your hand and helping you breathe as you bravely take one step at a time toward healing yourself.



Author: Jerri Niebaum Clark
Publisher: Sager Group LLC
Published: 02/20/2026
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781958861950


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001

About the Author
Clark, Jerri Niebaum: - Jerri Niebaum Clark is a professional mental health advocate and an award-winning journalist who lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she surfs, practices yoga, and is a gramma to two young boys. Her son, Calvin, died from his severe mental illness in 2019, when he was 23. Clark manages a resource center and supports and trains families for the non-profit Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC). TAC's focus is severe mental illness (SMI), which means psychotic conditions that are life-altering. Clark has shared her story and advocacy points on numerous print and broadcast platforms, including "PBS News Hour" and The Seattle Times. As a yoga teacher for more than 20 years, she sees her ambiguous loss work as a coalescence of the self-discoveries from those practices alongside her journalism, advocacy, and lived experience as a mom stretching to survive a loss beyond human expectation.

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