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Sasha BatesSasha Bates is a qualified Psychotherapist specialising in embodied psychotherapy, trauma and self-regulation. She teaches workshops on subjects such as self-care for therapists, and how yoga can help those with PTSD.
Sasha's first career was in the TV industry where she spent 18 years writing, directing and producing for the BBC and C4, including for series as varied as Omnibus, Grand Designs and How to Look Good Naked. She also writes travel articles for The Sunday Telegraph and Queen of Retreats. When Sasha's husband suddenly died she was plunged into the messy reality of her own grief. Her resulting memoir LANGUAGES OF LOSS explores her personal experience of grief through the mindset of her expertise as a psychotherapist, asking the question - can knowledge of the theory of grief help us better understand and process our own grief? It is a tender and raw portrayal of loss, a beautiful portrait of her late husband and an honest exploration of grief, arguing that ultimately there is no one way to process bereavement. It will be published in 2020. |
Praise for Languages of Loss
"Sasha writes exquisitely and honestly, the sheer rawness of what she has gone through and is still going through, sitting in balance with the calm and clear-sighted objectivity of the therapist, who is also her. That I knew Bill and so vividly recognise the man is testimony to her skill at characterisation - but whether one knew him or not, one recognises love when one reads it and one recognises the chaotic agony of a love lost. Exploring the threads of her bereavement with such candour and wit and lightness of touch is a remarkable achievement. Importantly, bursting through the bitter darkness of her personal experience shine truths that will serve as points of light for those who have shared, or are perhaps just embarking upon, the confusing journey of grief" Hugh Bonneville, Actor
"This is a deep and generous book. Sasha Bates offers the reader a compassionate walk alongside her as she weaves her own personal story of loss with her professional understanding. It will be a great support to all who have suffered loss." Elizabeth Wilde McCormick, Psychotherapist and Author
"I was...left with an awe, an awe of humanity’s fundamental and beautiful capacity for loving connection, with one another and with one’s self. I will keep this book close to me always" Ed Simmons, Psychotherapist and Chemical Brother
"This is a book fluent not just in the languages of loss but of compassion, humour, empathy, understanding, revelation and humanity.
Even in the depths of her own grief Sasha Bates makes sense of the chaos that envelops all of us and offers not a reductive path to some kind of quasi-redemption but the profound glimpse of a way through." Tim Marlow, Creative director of the Royal Academy
"Sasha writes exquisitely and honestly, the sheer rawness of what she has gone through and is still going through, sitting in balance with the calm and clear-sighted objectivity of the therapist, who is also her. That I knew Bill and so vividly recognise the man is testimony to her skill at characterisation - but whether one knew him or not, one recognises love when one reads it and one recognises the chaotic agony of a love lost. Exploring the threads of her bereavement with such candour and wit and lightness of touch is a remarkable achievement. Importantly, bursting through the bitter darkness of her personal experience shine truths that will serve as points of light for those who have shared, or are perhaps just embarking upon, the confusing journey of grief" Hugh Bonneville, Actor
"This is a deep and generous book. Sasha Bates offers the reader a compassionate walk alongside her as she weaves her own personal story of loss with her professional understanding. It will be a great support to all who have suffered loss." Elizabeth Wilde McCormick, Psychotherapist and Author
"I was...left with an awe, an awe of humanity’s fundamental and beautiful capacity for loving connection, with one another and with one’s self. I will keep this book close to me always" Ed Simmons, Psychotherapist and Chemical Brother
"This is a book fluent not just in the languages of loss but of compassion, humour, empathy, understanding, revelation and humanity.
Even in the depths of her own grief Sasha Bates makes sense of the chaos that envelops all of us and offers not a reductive path to some kind of quasi-redemption but the profound glimpse of a way through." Tim Marlow, Creative director of the Royal Academy
