Healing After Loss

It is what is says it is - a guide for the grieving. With short but profound thoughts for each day. Highly recomended, beautifully written and very helpful.

I bought this book before I needed it, knowing that when I needed it, I probably wouldn’t be able to figure out how to help myself. My mom passed a few weeks ago. I didn’t pick up the book till a few weeks after but it really has made a difference. It’s not preachy at all. The meditations are gentle and helpful, and reflective of one’s everyday thoughts. The pages are marked with a date for everyday of the year, but I just started reading from the beginning, whatever I could get through on a day by day basis. Highly recommended for anyone having trouble dealing with the overwhelming grief from the loss of a loved one.

Bought for someone who had just lost their spouse it is proving to be a genuine source of inspiration and comfort. Very strongly recommended

This book has become my best friend. The daily passages reflect understanding, empathy and hope. It has helped me, and those I now frequently purchase it for, immeasurably. While not preachy or directly biblical it exemplifies Christian or spiritual love. When given the book I set it aside in a pile. The last think i wanted to do was read about grief or be reminded of the "stages." I am not a daily devotional girl. Well...now i look forward to time with my new friend every day. I guess it was on a particularly crappy day during Covid that I decided to read a page, just so I could tell my sister I had tried it. It must have been the right day for me, the right frame of mind or the right message. I began to read daily, turned corners of so many pages the book looks weird. Now I do the daily read and review those special pages when I have an extra needy day. I give a copy to those whose grief seems to touch my own heart, but always include a note about putting it aside until it calls to them. That's when they are ready. Thats when the new friend will be most helpful. One person, not someone I was close to, started to read immediately and we now have super helpful text conversations about specific messages or feelings. Others are likely still looking at it in their pile. The feeling of possibly helping others by giving this book has been an unexpected addition to my own healing and I encourage you to do the same. Include your number and be open to text messages that can turn into a remote and unobtrusive group therapy experience! It's nice to share memories and feelings with someone who wont judge or feel you are just being a downer!

This is a classic book, that provides some solace and words express the loss over 365 days, and we can repeat as the healing is unending...but the printer, William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) shows no appreciation of reading a book - for every page one has to prise the book at the binder to read the words at the inner edges (do see the image). The printer has reduced a 5-Star content-book to a 2-star reading experience - a disgrace to the dignity of reading!!!