Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief

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Summary: Uplifting
Review: I recommend Healing After Loss because it is uplifting. We have to keep our minds positive to make it through the sorrow.
I also recommend Write From Your Heart, A Healing Grief Journal, to write your feelings down and express them on paper.
It is hard to find good books and I think these two are great.

Rating:
Summary: Uplifting
Review: I recommend Healing After Loss because it is uplifting. We have to keep our minds positive to make it through the sorrow.
I also recommend Write From Your Heart, A Healing Grief Journal, to write your feelings down and express them on paper.
It is hard to find good books and I think these two are great.

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Summary: This book is a Godsend since I lost my husband two years ago
Review: I was dealing with the devastation and loss of my husband after a fight with the evil cancer. I did not want to live. My whole life changed and I would have done anything to have him back. But, I kept living and I couldn't get him back no matter what. This book has had a profound affect in helping me deal with and get through this painful phase called grieving. The writings of 365 different people and days describes so effectively the feelings and reality of what grief is. I still read it daily. So many of the comparisons hit home. I have bought it for two friends who have recently lost loved ones. I highly recommend it to any grieving person who needs to understand the emotional and painful process they are going through. You aren't alone.

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Summary: Awesome Daily Book
Review: I've been reading this book for the past 3 months now and it is such a help to me. After I lost my sister back in september. I would highly recommend this book to anyone

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Summary: My greatest help for facing grief
Review: In April, 1997 my 37 year old son died from a heart attack. A friend gave this book to me and I consider it the best aid I had for dealing with the profound grief. Friends and family are wonderful but it took this little book to actually force me to do some work and move on. June 11,2001, My dear husband died of a very sudden, no warning heart attack. I have just begun the daily meditations again. I already am feeling the process changing from denial, to one of accepance and I almost feel like I will live again. I want so much to be able to thank the author personally but perhaps this little note will help.

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Summary: A sense of comfort from a small gift.
Review: My beloved mother passed away just two short months ago, and I was devastated! A few weeks later, I received a package from my sister-in-law who lost her husband to cancer almost four years ago. I opened it up and found a copy of Healing After Loss. My sister-in-law included a note saying that another sister-in-law gave her a copy when her husband passed away, and thought it might help me through a difficult time. Initially, I put it on my nightstand, unable to even open it up. It was only after my sister-in-law called to see if I liked it that I began to read the passage for that particular day. Since then, it has become a morning ritual. Many times I cry as I read the passage, but I always seem to find some comfort in the words I read. I plan to purchase this book for my two sisters in the hope that they too will find comfort in the daily passages.

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Summary: Grief Counseling in Book Form!
Review: My best friend and mentor died 8 months ago as I watched. I thought I would never be able to go on...My life suddenly stopped as I was forced not even yet to accept but just try to swallow the fact that Mommy, my pal had been taken away from me and on to meet Our Heavenly Father. Raised to believe in Christ and His redemptive power, now, I was forced to hang on to the belief that my Mother had gone to a better place. well, it just was working. And how could it? This the woman, I have been told, that I was "perilously" too close to... and now no one to go to Atlantic City with, I now would have to go to Livingston Taylor concerts alone and watch pro basketball on TV by myself... I suffer with bipolar disorder and now,on top of it all, I am supposed to really feel like life will go on? Well, yes...'cause it will and it will be a lot easier with this excellent daily, meditative "portable" counselor: Martha Whitmore Hickman's "Healing After Loss." And to think, the book was given to me by my ex... Don't hesitate to get this necessary book if you are grieving the loss of a loved one! I am purchasing 10 copies to give as gifts to family members.

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Summary: A book you will want to share with a loved one who has lost.
Review: My brother lost his 18yr old daughter to a drunk driver. As we celebrated her life at the ocean, throwing rose petals and watching them come back to us, David pulled from his pocket this worn and dogeared book and read beautiful passages. It was wonderful help to he and his wife.

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Summary: This book is a Godsend
Review: My father passed away recently - and very suddenly at age 54. Our family is very close, and this loss has been devastating for us. The one thing, besides each other, that has been holding us together is this book. My sister, mother, and I take turns reading the passages aloud - sometimes a few times a day - and it seems as though the words are speaking to exactly what we are feeling. I would highly recommend this book for anyone going through the loss of a loved one. Thank you, Martha, for compiling these words for us.

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Summary: I'm not alone when I'm with Healing After Loss
Review: My husband of only 19 yrs. died 10 days after a work-related accident. We had no children and the house is so unbelieveably empty. People don't know what to say so they say nothing and leave me grieving alone. Someone gave me her copy of Healing After Loss saying she needed it back when I was thru with it. I had it only a few days when I knew I had to have my own copy. Ms. Hickman is able to identify my feelings and console me thru her words. Her short, but to-the-point, reflections of pain and unbearable loss recognize and validate what I am experiencing and incorporate, without any pressure to 'get over it' quickly, a gentle support like an arm around my shoulders holding me together until I can support myself. Anyone searching for 'the right words' to say to a grief stricken friend or relative should not hesitate to get this small book of special wisdom for their use and that of the bereaved.