Biography:Christina Rasmussen
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Christina Rasmussen is a Greek–American crisis intervention counselor and author. She is best known for writing Second Firsts, a 2013 book introducing a new model of grief based on the science of neuroplasticity, as well as creating a grief counseling organization of the same name.
Background
In September 1998, Rasmussen delivered her master's thesis on the stages of grief at the University of Durham in England.[1]
In 2003, Rasmussen's husband of 10 years, Bjarne Rasmussen, was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer.[2] On July 21, 2006, he died in the intensive care unit of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute at the age of thirty-five.[2]
While grieving, Rasmussen continued working to support her two children.[2] She obtained a graduate certificate in human resource management from Northeastern University, and joined the human resource department at Parexel, a multinational life sciences consulting firm.[3]
In September 2010, she started writing her weekly letter on her site Second Firsts which began her journey as a writer.
On November 4, 2013, her first book Second Firsts[4] was published by Hay House.[5]
The Life Reentry Institute[6] was born in 2017 bringing forth a professional curriculum to allow for professionals to bring Life Reentry into their work.
In December 2018 Rasmussen published her first book with HarperOne, Where Did You Go? It received many favorable reviews from The Hype Magazine[7] and many others but also critical reviews from religious establishments such as the National Catholic Reporter.[8]
Second Firsts
In April 2010, Rasmussen created the Life Reentry Model, a model of grieving based on her professional, academic, and personal observations of the bereavement process.[9] This model is the foundation of her 2013 book, Second Firsts, as well as her grief counseling organization of the same name.[3]
Rasmussen's model of grief operates on the assumption of psychological resilience, echoing the theories introduced by George Bonanno, a professor of clinical psychology at the Teachers College of Columbia University. Her theories conflict with popularized concepts of grief stemming from the 1917 and 1969 publications of Mourning and Melancholia and On Death and Dying by Sigmund Freud and Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, respectively.[10][11] The defining characteristic of the model proposed by Second Firsts is the view of loss as a catalyst for change and self-growth.[12]
Reception and influence
In December 2012, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington invited Rasmussen to write an article for the website. The article, titled "7 Unexpected Steps to Starting Over During the Holidays", appeared on the "Most Popular" list within 24 hours of its publication.[13]
For her work on Second Firsts, Rasmussen has been featured on the blog of the White House, as well as HelloGiggles, a lifestyle website created by actress Zooey Deschanel.[14][15]
References
- ↑ "DailyOM – Second Firsts: Live, Laugh, and Love Again". 2013. http://www.dailyom.com/library/000/003/000003254.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Spegman, Abby (January 8, 2013). "Just Like Starting Over". http://www.wickedlocal.com/x1233666015/Just-like-starting-over.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rymer, Brooke (March 2016). "Raising the Bar of Life After Loss". Experience Life. https://experiencelife.com/article/raising-the-bar-on-life-after-loss-qa-with-christina-rasmussen/.
- ↑ "Second Firsts" (in en), Goodreads, 2019-09-30, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18717033-second-firsts, retrieved 2021-01-29
- ↑ "Second Firsts" (in en). https://www.hayhouse.com/second-firsts-1.
- ↑ "Christina Rasmussen" (in en-US). https://lifereentry.com/.
- ↑ "Acclaimed Author Christina Rasmussen On New Book "Where Did You Go?" & Other Projects". https://www.thehypemagazine.com/2019/01/acclaimed-author-christina-rasmussen-on-new-book-where-did-you-go-other-projects/.
- ↑ "Author invites us to irreligious realm". 2019-04-10. https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/author-invites-us-irreligious-realm.
- ↑ Quantock, Grace (January 21, 2014). "Trailblazer Interview: Christina Rasmussen & Falling Away Then Finding a Way". GraceQuantock.com (Interview).
- ↑ Broom, Sarah M. (August 30, 2004). "Milestones". Time (magazine). http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,689491,00.html.
- ↑ Clewell, Tammy (March 2004). "Mourning Beyond Melancholia: Freud's Psychoanalysis of Loss". Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 52 (1): 43–67. doi:10.1177/00030651040520010601. PMID 15089015. https://www.apsa.org/portals/1/docs/japa/521/clewell.pdf.
- ↑ Rasmussen, Christina (November 4, 2013). Second Firsts: Live, Laugh, and Love Again. Hay House.
- ↑ Rasmussen, Christina (December 10, 2012). "7 Unexpected Steps to Starting Over During the Holidays". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-rasmussen/starting-over_b_2270770.html.
- ↑ Escobar, Michelle (September 13, 2012). "WWTDG: Christina Rasmussen". Hello Giggles. http://hellogiggles.com/wwtdg-christina-rassmussen.
- ↑ Cho, Ronnie (December 7, 2012). "WWTDG: When All Love Is Not Lost". whitehouse.gov. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/12/07/wwtdg-when-all-love-not-lost.
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