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Summary: More than a book--a friend!
Review: As the author of Silent Grief, I can say this was a most difficult book to write. Personally experiencing child loss was crucial to getting the facts plus the feelings of losing a child put down on paper. Silent Grief is not one person's account of losing a child, but rather a composite of the emotions, pain, and experiences of many different parents who have experienced child loss. This book will walk you through the deep valley of grief into the light of hope. You will "feel" the loss all along the way. You will understand how child loss touches every aspect of our lives. Silent Grief will be a book that you will pick up time and time again as you journey through the loss of a child. I would encourage every health care professional, clergy person, teacher, counselor, and funeral director to read this book over and over. Acquaint yourself with all that a parent feels and needs when suffering the loss of a child. Silent Grief deals with child loss from miscarriage through the loss of an adult child. This book is written for men and women, fathers and mothers, and it also explains how to keep your marriage alive while enduring the crippling pain of losing a child. The language is clear and easy to understand, yet packed with facts and emotions that you will refer to over and over again. Everyone should have a copy of this book, because everyone is invariably touched in some way by the loss of a child. This book is by far the overall best book on child loss that has ever been written! Silent Grief is much more than a book. Silent Grief is the friend you need to carry you through the deep grief of losing a child onto the path of hopeful living again.
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Summary: This Book Will Change Your Life
Review: I like many parts of this book and find those sections helpful after having two first-trimester miscarriages within six months. It is obvious Clara Hinton has lived much of what she writes about. However, I do not like, at all, the way the author intermingles miscarriage with all types of child loss. On one level, I can appreciate the approach that losing a child, born or unborn, is devastating. I find it distracting, though, to read a paragraph about miscarriage and then have to skim the next several paragraphs or pages until the next reference. The author also is somewhat repetitive... In addition, Hinton makes ongoing references throughout the book to certain situations by telling the stories a sentence or two at a time. It's maddening. One such instance was her sister, who died at a young age, and the other was the experience of a close family friend who lost a child. I felt like the author was stringing me along, besides the fact it was confusing trying to keep the specific situation straight. Finally, in a fit of frustration, I took a highlighter and re-read/skimmed the book so that I could mark the really very helpful sections that pertained to my situation. Also, the book contains no biography of the author. As a reader you learn, in the same "sentence here, sentence there" manner that she and her husband dealt with multiple miscarriages etc., but do have several living children. Nowhere, however, is this set forth with any clarity.
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Summary: A must read for anyone who has lost a child
Review: It has been more than a year since my husband and I suffered a miscarriage after struggling with infertility. I was fortunate to have found the silent grief website and this book soon after this devastating experience. Those who have suffered an early pregnancy loss know that very few people begin to understand the pain, let alone, are able to comfort us. This book was the only one on the subject that healed my spirit. As someone who knows, first hand, the pain of pregnancy loss, Clara Hinton articulates so well all the feelings a mother experiences. Most importantly, this book will help you understand why others don't seem to share your pain, why your spouse will express grief differently, and how to cope through it all. If you have lost a child, this book is a must read. The author is a strong Christian woman; therefore, the book makes a lot of references to Scripture (a warning for those who don't share the Christian faith).
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Summary: A must read for anyone who has lost a child
Review: It has been more than a year since my husband and I suffered a miscarriage after struggling with infertility. I was fortunate to have found the silent grief website and this book soon after this devastating experience. Those who have suffered an early pregnancy loss know that very few people begin to understand the pain, let alone, are able to comfort us. This book was the only one on the subject that healed my spirit. As someone who knows, first hand, the pain of pregnancy loss, Clara Hinton articulates so well all the feelings a mother experiences. Most importantly, this book will help you understand why others don't seem to share your pain, why your spouse will express grief differently, and how to cope through it all. If you have lost a child, this book is a must read. The author is a strong Christian woman; therefore, the book makes a lot of references to Scripture (a warning for those who don't share the Christian faith).
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Summary: This Book Will Change Your Life
Review: Nobody can imagine what it is like to have a miscarriage or to lose a child. Friends may try to help you with nice little sayings or with cards, but they just don't understand what you are going through. And that is where this book comes in...The author has gone through child loss and several miscarriages herself, so she actually knows what a grieving person is feeling. She helps the readers realize that they are not going crazy if they are feeling grief days, weeks, or months after the loss. Hinton is an authority on this topic of grief and child loss, as can be seen from the thousands of people that visit her website (named after her book) daily for advice and encouragement. This book has helped me more than I could ever express. As I read the book, I felt like the author was right beside me, encouraging me along the way. Parts of the book are difficult to read - as it brings forth so many painful memories and feelings. However, it helps the healing process so much. I cannot say enough about this book. It is a MUST READ for anyone - man or woman - that has gone through the loss of a child or a miscarriage. Your only regret after buying this book will be that you didn't buy the book much sooner.
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Summary: The best book on child loss, hands down!
Review: This book is the best book I've read since I lost my baby five months ago. I read it for the first time right after losing our first child, and parts of it helped me right away and other parts prepared me for what was ahead in the grieving process. I just read it again, and it amazed me at how true everything Clara Hinton wrote was. It is one thing to read about what might happen, but another to read about what has happened, and for it to be so exactly right on. Miscarriage is a big deal, regardless of what anyone will tell you, and you have to let yourself go through the entire grieving process to heal. Clara, through her own tragic experiences as well as through her accounts of countless other parents' tragedies, tells the truth about what to expect and what to do with the feelings and pain that will inevitably come with losing a precious child, no matter the child's age. I absolutely loved this book, and I am ordering another today for a friend who just lost her first baby, too. This book is also a VERY good book for friends and family members who would like to better understand the grief the parents are going through. I'd give this 10 stars if I could!
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Summary: Simply wonderful author
Review: This was required reading for a class I took. I was deeply moved by it. She shared her intermost feelings telling about her own grief and her own loss. She was also a guest speaker at this class. Clara Hinton is such a warm and caring person. Even if you haven't suffered the loss of a child this book can help you to help those that did. It made me cry, I truly had felt her loss. She really needs to go on the Oprah show.
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Summary: Simply wonderful author
Review: This was required reading for a class I took. I was deeply moved by it. She shared her intermost feelings telling about her own grief and her own loss. She was also a guest speaker at this class. Clara Hinton is such a warm and caring person. Even if you haven't suffered the loss of a child this book can help you to help those that did. It made me cry, I truly had felt her loss. She really needs to go on the Oprah show.
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