“It doesn't matter if you are male or female, a counselor or a griever. It doesn't matter how much you have learned about grief, loss and bereavement. What does matter is that this comfortable, easy-to-read book will captivate you, teach you and you will be comfortable learning from it. Chaplain Dan Duggan has spun stories to make points and to bring us into the book and let us know the characters, their stories and how to bless the solitude and separateness of masculine grief. In a very real way, you will find this book as interesting as a novel and it will hold a mirror up to you to take a look at your own unique way of grieving. I consider it one of the best I've ever reviewed."

Joy Johnson, grief educator and co-founder of Centering Corporation, Omaha NE.

“This book will be very helpful to you in understanding healing.  It will take you on a journey in understanding solitude and seeing just how it works and how it heals.  It will also give you ideas about how to help others who are healing quietly.”

Tom Golden, LCSW, author of The Way Men Heal and Swallowed By a Snake – The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing, webhealing.com

“Armed with openness, active listening and genuine caring, Duggan, in Men, Grief and Solitude: A Different Perspective, has delved deep into the core of how men's grief and solitude gets expressed differently than that of women as well as from how traditional grief models often suggest. With heart guidance as a pastor and clinically-caring skills as a chaplain, Duggan peels, like an onion, various theories about how and why men grieve and use solitude. Chapter after chapter, he continues to methodically and meticulously peel as he gets down to that which is practical and useful for chaplains, clergy, counselors and lay alike to best accompany men on their much needed healing journeys. Through his own personal "report talk" about having to face grief and loss issues from childhood into his adult life while coming to appreciate the sacredness of his need for solitude at times to do so, Duggan's book reveals how he has professionally been able to create and be a safe space for other men (and women) to do the same. Men, Grief and Solitude is evidence of the insights and wisdom Duggan has gleaned in his over 40 years of work with the grieving and, most significantly, the particular attention he has paid to men and their need and right to be respected and supported in the different ways they express grief as well as experience and process solitude. Duggan's book is a must-read for all who genuinely desire to connect and be with men where and how they actually are when they are grieving and have a need for solitude, not how it has for too long been theorized and expected they should be. Duggan, in offering a different perspective about men, grief and solitude, has literally opened doors that lead to greater healing possibilities for us all.”

This review is from: Men, Grief, And Solitude: A Different Perspective, Amazon.com

Dr. Janae Moore, Hospice Chaplain, Capital Caring, Alexandria, Virginia