Much Needed
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A comprehensive book that will help you through all the cycles that grief will take you throu. Another good book along the same lines is Song Of Cy: Understanding Grief (Katlyn Stewart). The two books will make a huge difference in how you see grief and how you are able to cope with it.
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To Move Through and Beyond Loss
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This book is easy to read. The authors recommend reasonable "homework" that guides the reader through his/her loss history. The entire process outlined in the book provides a crucial look at important relationships and includes exercises to help bring relationships "up-to-date". The Grief Recovery Handbook would be an excellent companion to a traditional grief support group. Readers should know that The Grief Recovery Institute, adminstered by the authors, is an excellent resource. Visit their Website at www.grief.net. I have seen this simple book help many people who are grieving even though their stories and circumstances are quite varied. The authors joined with a Child Psychologist to publish another excellent book entitled When Children Grieve.
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Life Saving
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This book reveals a path to resolving grief through the process of re-education. It is both clear and concise in the steps that are outlined. Interesting and life changing reading!
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Well written
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This handbook is informative and helpful. The authors have touched on the truth about grief. Good work.
Kathrine Peterson author of Write from Your Heart, A Healing Grief Journal and Healing Stories of Grief and Faith.
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Feels like a miracle
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For more than a year after my father died, I felt as if I was going in slow motion, while the world raced past me. Time didn't seem to have done anything to heal me, in fact I was feeling worse. My friends tried to talk to me and help me, but I couldn't hear anything other than my own despair. One of my dear friends, in desperation, gave me a copy of The Grief Recovery Handbook. That simple act of kindness changed my life. In the solitude of my own home, without having to try to feel good so others would think I was okay, I began to read the book. Almost against my own will, I began to take the actions and do the exercises outlined in the book. One of the hardest parts about them, was that they were too easy. I began to realize how much I had been complicating the possibility of recovery by trying to use my head to fix my heart. As the direct result of creating an accurate picture of my entire relationship with my father, and completing what had been unsaid or unfinished, I regained the gratitude I felt toward life, and the energy with which to live it. While I have normal sadness and miss my dad from time to time, I am able to sustain a life of meaning and value, even though he is no longer physically here. What happened for me feels like a miracle, but in reality is the result of the safety and encouragement to take action provided by The Grief Recovery Handbook. I am eternally grateful.
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