{"product_id":"gone-before-gone-when-mental-illness-steals-someone-you-love-9781958861950","title":"Gone Before Gone: When Mental Illness Steals Someone You Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow to survive ambiguous loss, by a mom who lost her son to psychosis and then to suicide.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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 \u003cem\u003eGone Before Gone\u003c\/em\u003e, Clark describes her son's \"death by degrees\" during a young adulthood wrecked by severe mental illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurviving 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jerri Niebaum Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sager Group LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781958861950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClark, Jerri Niebaum:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Jerri Niebaum Clark \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":67804797829277,"sku":"9781958861950","price":25.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_509a33f5-ba93-4bf3-be46-bb5efffe42ed.jpg?v=1794382984","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/gone-before-gone-when-mental-illness-steals-someone-you-love-9781958861950","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}