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The Grief Recovery Handbook : The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death Divorce, and Other Losses | Paperback

by John W. James (Author), Russell Friedman (Author)

List Price:

$13.00

Binding:

Paperback

Publisher:

Harper Paperbacks

Edition:

2 Revisednd Edition

Page Count:

192 Pages

Publication Date:

July 17, 1998

Sales Rank:

78,823th

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Product Description
Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect onyour capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories, as wellas from others, the authors illustrate what grief is and how it ispossible to recover and regain energy and spontaneity. Based on a provenprogram, now extensively revised, The Grief Recovery Handbookoffers grievers the specific actions needed to complete the grievingprocess and accept loss. For those ready to regain a sense of aliveness,the principles outlined here make this a life-changinghandbook.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 74 reviews)

Extremely Helpful book by Dawn R. Tolbert (Asheville, NC)

5 Stars
October 11, 2009
I found this book to be so very helpful for me. Not only did it help me understand my grief, but it also validated my grief and helped me work through it. I particularly liked the 'assignments' that were given. The History Loss Graph and the Relationship Graph were excellent. Highly recommended for anyone who is experience grief over the loss of anything. In my own personal situation, am experiencing grief over losing too many homes and friends to moving around and also 2 divorces. I have also experienced a lot of loss in my life as a child being sent from one parent to another in separate states. This book validated that my grief does not have to be from someone in my life dying, but loss of any kind can bring on the same kind of grief. Loss is loss and it's painful. I love this book and will keep it as a reference forever.

Releasing pain and moving forward without letting go of our loved ones by Jessie Menendez (Las Vegas, NV)

5 Stars
September 28, 2009
One very simple truth is brought forth in this powerful little book. Bluntly, the majority of our society does not know how or even want to deal with the negative ("bad") feelings which are the natural response to loss. We've been trained that "boys don't cry", "have a cookie and you'll feel better", "forget the past", in other words stuff the feelings that make other people uncomfortable. Or as a good friend of mine use to do, compartmentalize: put everything in boxes in your mind and put them on a shelf in the back so you don't have to deal with them and they don't have to bother anyone else. Unfortunately, emotional pain can be like an infection in your body. It may be scabbed over, but it's going to keep festering until you do what is necessary to heal it. Some people respond to the built up, festering pain by actually becoming physically ill. Some people grab an uzi and head to the mall. Then some people become angry, bitter people who turn to alcohol and/or drugs to numb the lifetime of unresolved pain. Either way the outcome isn't good for that person or the people around him/her. This book helps the reader to understand these concepts clearly and simply. Then it gives you tools to finally heal. If you have lost a loved one to death, rest assured that the goal is NOT for you to bury them again, by trying to make you let go of your relationship with that person. It IS about expressing the pain caused by the loss and letting go of only that pain so that you can remember your loved one with a smile instead of a knife in the heart. After my husband passed away, I worked with a grief recovery coach who trained at the Grief Recovery Institute with the authors of this book and founders of the institute. I highly recommend working with a grief coach when going through this book. If you cannot afford one, then find someone that you can trust to objectively and compassionately hear you through this process, maybe from a support group, or your church. Aside from the benefits of my coach's training and personal experience, I found working with someone kept me from procrastinating and helped me to push through the pain. Just remember, the only way out of the pain is through it.

Amazing by Donna Batt (Fruitland, Idaho)

5 Stars
September 15, 2009
This book and the process it takes you through has amazing healing power. I am a counselor and I use this book often as I work with people. Almost all of us have losses we need to heal from. This book is a key.

Brought hope back into my life... by Julie

5 Stars
September 01, 2009
A year ago our newborn son died and I kept waiting for "time to heal." Exactly a year later, I felt no better and in many ways had lost hope of ever being able to be happy again. I thought my heart would be broken the rest of my life. I finally went to see a therapist in a last ditch effort to try and gain some ground and she recommended this book. I had very low expectations since I had previously read numerous grief books, all along looking for the magical words that might fix me. Nothing I had read before had made much of a difference. Then I began this book and was SHOCKED at the difference it made in my grief and healing process. All along we were told by the hospital and counselors that we needed to acknowledge our loss and do "grief work." But no one could tell us exactly what grief work entailed...until I read this book. I wish I had found this long ago. Even before our son died, there were many other losses, and had I known the things that are expressed in this book, it would have made a huge difference in my life. I am just grateful for the huge difference it is making now. I believe everyone should read this book, even if it is only to be a better friend to someone who might be in my shoes. This book brought hope back into my life and provided the help in healing that I have needed so badly.

AMAZING!!!!!!!!! by Optimist (Kansas City, MO)

5 Stars
July 02, 2009
This book seriously helped me a lot, and I recommended it to a co-worker. It's not about guilt and shame, it's about getting your life back, and doing it quickly. I am salesperson, and I actually struggled with a promotion, because it meant that I had to give up my lifelong dream of being a professional musician. This book helps with all kinds of grief, not just death of loved ones, but loss of childhood dreams, or even loss of a pet. No feeling are too trivial to address. This book is a lightning fast read too. I got to figure out why I was depressed and actually let it go in a dignified way. I thank God for letting me find this book. Without it, my past would have haunted me for life. I finally released pain I had since I was 17. You can't afford not to buy this book right now- if not for you, then buy it for anyone you think could use it. I would buy it for an enemy. I don't want anyone to feel this way for long if you don't have to.

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