The Grief Recovery Handbook
The authors of this wonderful book.
John W.
James and Russell Friedman I'm just going to read partially what the back book cover says: Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative affect on your capacity for happiness.
Drawing from their own histories, as well as from others, the authors illustrate what grief is and how it is possible to recover and regain energy and spontaneity.
Don't let a tragic event in your life ruin it.
There are so many people out there just like you who have loved and lost and recovered, in the process learning to deal with life changes.
Me and my wife read this book and actually got to certain points and started crying realizing how many times we had been in situations and had no tools to deal with any forms of grief.
We were reading this book shortly after her best friend of over 20 years died of cancer.
She had read the book before and was familiar with it but I on the other hand was just beginning to understand grieving.
In the book you will learn about people that cling onto the past and suffer greatly from their choice not to let go.
In the meantime these people seem to also hurt other people whom they are close to.
I have heard about people that will not move the furniture or any of the belongings out a loved one's bedroom that they have lost years ago.
I can't even imagine the pain these people must be going through.
How do we get these people to move on and continue living their lives, we're not asking them to forget about what has happened but at the same time we are asking them to remember the people that are still around them.
A few years ago my grandfather died and last year my grandmother passed away.
I knew both of them fairly well and suffered very little grief because I have accepted death as a part of the cycle of life.
This does not mean I didn't get upset, at one time during the funeral I could not stop crying and my brother-in-law came over and wrapped his arms around me.
This made me feel really good inside.
It's nice to be loved.
The grief recovery handbook is a wonderful book for dealing with all forms of life's difficulties that we are not trained to deal with.
If you know anyone who is suffering from a divorce, death of a loved one or some sort of life hurdle they just can't seem to get through.
I guarantee you one thing this book will shed some light on dealing with life's difficulties.
Change is part of life and birth, death, divorce, and loss are all parts of our lives that seem to change when we least expect it.