TEDxChemungRiver: Good Grief! What I Learned from Loss
There is power in grieving intentionally and purposefully. Telling her own story of loss, Elaine Mansfield explains the use of ritual as a tool for empowerment for life’s most challenging times.
New Dimensions Café: Grief as an Initiation
Justine Toms asks Elaine about the spiritual transformations and lessons learned from loss and grief. They discuss guidance from dreams and advice Elaine received from Jungian analyst and teacher Marion Woodman. They also talk about the differences between writing for healing and learning how to write and promote a book. To listen to this fifteen minute interview, add the MP3 interview to the shopping cart. Then download from the shopping cart. The download is free.
New Dimensions Radio: Grief, A Spiritual Pilgrimage
Elaine Mansfield shares her very personal journey of grief and spiritual awakening through the process of losing her husband of 42 years to cancer. She discusses what it was like to witness his suffering and learn from the noble way he handled illness. She shares the importance of kindness in even the most stressful situation. Elaine also talks about her search for a new good life since his death. To listen to this one-hour interview, add the MP3 interview to a shopping cart. Then download from the shopping cart.
NPR Author’s Corner Reading
Reading two short excerpts from her book Leaning into Love, Elaine Mansfield takes us on a personal journey through loss, mourning, and the beginning of healing.
Linda Schreyer interviews Elaine Mansfield
Tears and Tequila Author, Linda Schreyer, talks with Elaine Mansfield author of Leaning into Love about the many things they have in common—grief, living in the country, spiritual paths, the power of ritual after the death of a loved one, and more.
Good Grief Radio with Cheryl Jones
When a lifelong practitioner of Buddhism, philosophy and healing loses her husband, how does she grieve? Elaine Mansfield observed her own experience, capturing her grief in a beautiful book and ultimately answering the call to support others through their losses as her life’s calling.
Cornell Alumni Magazine
Widow’s Walk: How Elaine Ware Mansfield ’67 channeled her grief into helping others cope with loss.
Karen Gadiel, “Leaning Into Love: In Her New Book Mansfield Chronicles Journey Through Grief”
Ithaca Times, Oct. 8, 2014
Elaine Mansfield can still become a little weepy recalling her beloved husband Vic’s illness and death, the core of her just-published book, Leaning Into Love, A Spiritual Journey Through Grief, (Larson Publications, $14.95). Not to worry.
Deborah Kalb’s Book Q and A with Author Elaine Mansfield
Oct. 11, 2014
Elaine Mansfield is the author of the new book Leaning into Love: A Spiritual Journey through Grief, which looks at her life before and after the death of her husband. She is a nutrition, exercise, and women’s health counselor, and a hospice volunteer. She lives in upstate New York.
The Last Embrace: The Dalai Lama blesses a dying man
In this remembrance, Elaine Mansfield recalls when the Dalai Lama and her husband Vic made a meaningful connection six weeks before Vic’s death. After the Dalai Lama’s embrace, Vic no longer feared his coming death. This article was published at Lion’s Roar and became the featured article at lionsroar.com on August 16, 2013.