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End of the Hour

A Therapist's Memoir

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"A frank chronicle of healing."—Kirkus Reviews

What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss?

Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riordan Jarvis knew how to help her patients process grief. For nearly twenty years, Meghan expected that this clinical training would inoculate her against the effects of personal trauma. But when her father died after a year-long battle with cancer, followed by her mother's unexpected passing while on their family vacation, she came undone.

Thrown into a maelstrom of grief, with long-buried childhood tragedy rising to the surface, Meghan knew what she had to do-check herself into the same trauma facility to which she often sent her clients. In treatment, trading the therapist's chair for the patient's couch, Meghan took her first steps toward healing.

A brave story of confronting life's hardest moments with emotional honesty, End of the Hour is for anyone who has experienced the unpredictable, lasting power of grief-and wondered how they'd ever get through it.

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      October 15, 2023
      This first book from Jarvis begins with her arriving in disbelief at the residential facility where she, a trauma therapist, has been sending patients in need for years, before revealing all that led to that moment and the healing that eventually occurred during her three-week stay. A defining incident from the author's childhood, the drowning death of an older boy from their Cape Cod community, challenged her idea of safety and uncovered a need for more attention than she received as a middle child in a big family. But it's the losses in adulthood of both parents in quick succession that eventually lead her, a mom to three young children, battered by grief, suffering panic attacks and debilitating muscle spasms, to ask for help. Any reader will recognize the moments of pain that Jarvis describes so knowingly, in all their stunning emotion and shocking physicality, but readers on grief journeys of their own may be especially drawn in, as, playing both clinician and patient, Jarvis offers a portal to self-compassion and a passage to hope.

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