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 The Grief Recovery Handbook : The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death Divorce, and Other Losses :: 0060952733
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Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect 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. Based on a proven program, now extensively revised, The Grief Recovery Handbook offers grievers the specific actions needed to complete the grieving process and accept loss. For those ready to regain a sense of aliveness, the principles outlined here make this a life-changing handbook. Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
Grief is a terrible and unpleasant situation to work through. This book gives a lot of information and background, in addition to the "workbook" techniques that allows the reader to actually work through the grief process and finally let it go.
I was suprised to find, when I purchased this book after the recent death of a loved one, that another loss, another death, came to mind most often when reading the book.
In working through the workbook techniques, I have been able to release the death of my recently lost loved one, as well as several other losses (and not all of them death - some are loss of jobs, of relatonships, which also involve grief). I remain impressed about the wealth of information in this book and how helpful it is for any kind of loss.
If I could wave my "magic wand", I would have everyone read this book and work the "workbook" part, so that we all can be better at dealing with grief in our lives, as well as helping others who are going through a grief process. I know for myself if I had been better supported through at least two other grief moments in my life the recent death of my loved one would have been much easier to go through (and the other grief moments themselves easier to go through as well).
I highly recommend this book to anyone going through any kind of grief, whether it be death, divorce, a relationship breakup, a move, a job layoff/ firing/ quitting or anything that causes unhappiness, sadness, or heartache no matter how "signficiant" or "insignificant" society tells us that incident should be.
I would be HONORED to partner with anyone willing to go through the workbook exercises - for them more than me, as I know how hard (yet helpful) it can be to find a willing partner - and I know, after having just gone through a death & a grief healing process, how important it is to go through the grief process "correctly" so you can heal yourself and move on, to continue to open your heart & arms to life and all that it has to offer.
This book can help you do just that - solo or with a partner.
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Author: Guest
This book may be fine for Divorced persons, who have lost their spouse due to marital disharmony, however the lost spouse is not deceased, but still living. My experience of losing a spouse that I had lived with for half a century, who was my closest and best friend, never to see them again doesn't compare the despair of a divorced person. Many divorced persons find it difficult to remember anything positive about their former spouse. I on the other hand find it impossible to recall anything negative about my late spouse, even though the author wants me to make a graph showing at least two negative events. Further, that if one doesn't, they are "enshrining" the lost one. I don't know if the author has experienced the death of his spouse, as has the author of a grief book I later read, where the author finds more humanistic ways to lessen grief. This later book, "Finding Your Way After Your Spouse Dies" by Marta Felber I found very helpful.
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Author: Guest
This book provided excellant information in layman's terms.
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Author: Guest
i truly hope that this book helps fellow grievers, and i see from the responses that it has. But for me, I felt that these authors felt that they had THE answer, and well they were very bossy about it! I was annoyed at their demands that this book be read from start to finish; after i read the whole thing I realiazed that for me, for me, i would have been okay reading only the final chapter. I hope it helps others.
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Author: Guest
Well written and well meaning but gee, those exercises weren't what I needed. I didn't feel it was exactly helpful to dredge up all the bad hits I've taken over the last 30 years. It looks like the book was so very helpful to some reviewers and that's wonderful. I needed to pick up and get moving not do a life review of all the hurtful losses.
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