End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

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 mothers 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 docheck herself into the same trauma facility to which she often sent her clients. In treatment, trading the therapists chair for the patients couch, Meghan took her first steps toward healing. A brave story of confronting lifes hardest moments with emotional honesty, End of the Hour is for anyone who has experienced the unpredictable, lasting power of griefand wondered how theyd ever get through it.