Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief

Excellent book. Beautifully written and thought out with compassion and understanding of the pain and grief thatcomes with loss. It seems that almost every entry causes you to say, yes, yes that's how I feel, and although I'm suffering, I'm not alone and all of my feelings are normal. Highly recommend for anyone who has lost a loved one including a pet.

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!

Excellent book. Lots of wisdom.

A friend sent me a copy of this many years ago after I lost my daughter to a brain tumor. I still read it and it has a permanent location on my nightstand. I keep several copies in my home at all times and gift them to others when they experience a significant loss. I have probably purchased 40 copies over the years. The book does not give advice or preach. Rather, it has a page for each day of the year and provides a reflection and acknowledgement of feelings when missing a loved one. One page per day. In the early days of grief, that was all I could handle. This book reminds you that your feelings are your own and that you can get through the pain one day at a time.

I was given this as a gift after my husband passed away. I have been using it for 9 months and find the daily quotes and thoughts very healing. I recently ordered and gave a copy to a friend who had recently lost her husband. She said that it was helpful as well. I like to try to start each morning with a passage for the day.

Great Book with a lot of truths in it.. but it was standard size. I know it was written in part of the product description but really, who looks at those. IMHO other than standard size should be written in the main header (description) None the less I am enjoying it and this time in my life anything positive or thought provoking is welcomed.

Someone suggested this book, after I lost my 32 year old daughter to cancer. I ordered it, tried to read it, and put it down. It stayed stacked with other books, for two years. The beginning of this year I came across it again, opened and read. Now, I can finally read and appreciate it. It is six days until my daughter's birthday (my Valentine's baby), and this excerpt especially touched my heart."It surprises us. We know it's a fluke. We know it won't last.Happiness? Contentment? Joy?And not just a quick flash of joy, of contentment--as when we are lifted up on wings of song--or by prayer--or by a spectacular sky--or because of a daisy blooming in some field. But a sense that in some way we are going to be able, after all this, to be happy! Whoever would have thought it?.......It is life calling to us--See, you are mine. I have wonders in store for you, believe it or not. And I will wait for you--beneath the snow, if necessary, and beyond the storm."When I came home this summer from being with my three grand children, I was full of joy and love. A thought came, "Why should I be happy? She is gone, and I'm all alone." I decided right there and then, that I would be happy, period. Was I happy that I had lost my daughter? Never in a million years, nor was I happy with how things happened or turned out, but I chose to be happy in life, despite what had happened, she would have wanted that.Now that I can finally read this book, it has brought smiles and tears and is helping me heal even more. I wrote this so that those that are walking this road of shards of glass, when it has turned into a path of pebbles, you can pick this up, read and meditate. By the way, it is still a work in progress, I have many more days of happiness, joy and peace since I made that decision than before. Blessings!

A friend sent this to me after my husband passed away. I liked it so much I bought a couple for others. The daily messages are short, and just perfect for a griever.