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Summary: A way to focus the process of greiving
Review: After losing my husband at the age of 33 I found myself with nobody in the same situation to share my feelings with. This book helped me focus the feelings I had, which were often so overwhelming and confusing. I found myself reading her quotes of other people's feelings and experiences and saying "yes - that's it - I feel that too". The book was such help to me that I buy a bunch of them from time to time and share them with friends who lose someone close to them.
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Summary: This is a book to carry with you throughout grief and life
Review: After the sudden and unexpected death of my husband, I soon had collected a grief library. This is one book that has been the most helpful to me, and continues to provide insights and support as time goes on. The experiences of the author, of others, the poetry, the invitations to confront grief head-on - this book is an excellent companion, from the darkest times to the insightful times that come with the territory.
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Summary: Honestly, the only grief book anyone will ever need
Review: An outstanding reference book that identifies the unexplainable myriad of emotions that one experiences when losing someone, not only to death, but to divorce and other losses as well. Very articulate, Elizabeth Harper Neeld has "been there, done that" every inch of the way. It reads almost like a novel, though it's not, and is hard to put down. I used to administer a medical examiner's office and this was the only book on grief that I'd recommend to the family members/friends with whom we had to work.
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Summary: Provides a "road map" for coping with loss and rebuilding...
Review: As a hospice social worker currently leading grief groups, I think this is one of the most valuable resource I have discovered....This book provides a thoughtful "map" to the experience of sudden loss as well as coping with loss of any type. Harper Neeld, from her own experiences of loss, offers a new conceptualization for visualizing loss (the impact) and how it affects the world and offers most importantly a concrete active process for facing grief or the transition of coming to terms with a loss. Things I love about this book.
1) It is very well written. Harper Neeld is a college professor and writes in an engaging manner with broad use of other peoples' stories, literature and personal experience;
2) It is honest. She wrote the book over a 4 year period and chronicles her path of coping with her loss and her own coming to terms with it.
3). She utilizes most of the grief literatures as a foundation and incorporates key ideas appropriately throughout her book.
4) It is action oriented - Seven choices refers to her conception that as mourners face different facets of their grief/pain, they have different choices that lead to healing such as "to experience and express grief fully..." making choices until their have discovered what lyes beyond their grief. This book offers a tremendous opportunity for comfort and support by someone who has been there. For professional staff, it offers a new twist on grief theory pulling from broad aspects of scholarly resources regarding grief. The author also maintains a website www.elizabethharperneeld.com which has a monthly newsletter and informtion on her work which includes guides to writing and the writing process.
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Summary: Provides a "road map" for coping with loss and rebuilding...
Review: As a hospice social worker currently leading grief groups, I think this is one of the most valuable resource I have discovered.... This book provides a thoughtful "map" to the experience of sudden loss as well as coping with loss of any type. Harper Neeld, from her own experiences of loss, offers a new conceptualization for visualizing loss (the impact) and how it affects the world and offers most importantly a concrete active process for facing grief or the transition of coming to terms with a loss. Things I love about this book.
1) It is very well written. Harper Neeld is a college professor and writes in an engaging manner with broad use of other peoples' stories, literature and personal experience;
2) It is honest. She wrote the book over a 4 year period and chronicles her path of coping with her loss and her own coming to terms with it.
3). She utilizes most of the grief literatures as a foundation and incorporates key ideas appropriately throughout her book.
4) It is action oriented - Seven choices refers to her conception that as mourners face different facets of their grief/pain, they have different choices that lead to healing such as "to experience and express grief fully..." making choices until their have discovered what lyes beyond their grief. This book offers a tremendous opportunity for comfort and support by someone who has been there. For professional staff, it offers a new twist on grief theory pulling from broad aspects of scholarly resources regarding grief. The author also maintains a website www.elizabethharperneeld.com which has a monthly newsletter and informtion on her work which includes guides to writing and the writing process.
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Summary: I already did this one..
Review: Don't bother with it...the woman is anarcissist.
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Summary: Life-giving both as a read and a retreat.
Review: I am in retreat ministry and use Seven Choices as a foundational resource when presenting grief workshops and/or facilitating bereavement support groups. This author "tells it like it is" in a very down-to-earth fashion. She shares her personal experience of loss in ways that invite the reader to also open up and share life's greatest wound and greatest challenge...LOSS. When Elizabeth Harper Neeld presents Seven Choices in a weekend retreat the participants feel compassionately affirmed and look forward with hope for the experience of the "turning-point".
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Summary: This Is the very best book to turn to in your grief
Review: I am so happy I found this book. It was passed around to everyone in my grief support group.we only had 2 copies and at the time we tried to buy more we were told it was out of print.Everyone will be happy to hear they can buy there own copy now.I read every book I could get my hands on when my husband died.This book gave me the strength,hope & spirit to go on with my life
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Summary: Bought for a recent widow
Review: I bought this book in audio for a friend of mine whose husband died of cancer after 44 years of marriage. The day it arrived, she listened to both tapes and said she could so identify with the author. She thanked me profusely for this gift and said she was going to listen to it in her car as she drove. Her husband has only been dead a month as of this writing, and neither of us expects her to "heal" in record time, but she found comfort in this book and made me so glad this is the one I chose to send her. Based on her comments, I strongly recommend it to the grieving, especially widows.
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Summary: This book saved my life
Review: I can honestly say that Seven Choices saved my life.
I began to dip into it when my husband died but soon found that it was my constant companion, providing solace, comfort and hope and I read it slowly and meticulously
as I passed through the long and painful grief process.
In despair it gave me comfort; it allowed me to cry and to understand my strange and seemingly irrational needs.
It taught me that I was not alone. it gave me courage to work through the long months of agony. It was always there - a friend to guide and steer me to the world beyond grief.
Eight years on - I still read it from time to time. Over the years I have personally bought ove 20 copies and always have "library copies" in my home to send to friends in need.
I read all the bereavement books I could find - this one was and still is the only one that gave me the will to continue life without my husband.
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