My name is David Brinker. Like so many others I have experienced different kinds of loss over the years. In a short period of time, my father-in-law died, I moved to change jobs, I faced a change in financial security, a friend completed suicide, my mother-in-law and sister-in-law died, I experienced a physical trauma resulting in a serious life-threatening health problem, my father died, my mother had to go to a care facility and then she died, and the best dog I ever had died. I even felt a loss over ways my religious community hurt me.

I didn't know what to do with the feelings caused by these losses. The confusing feelings felt like I was carrying around a bag of unwanted rocks....