Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief

Excellent book. Beautifully written and thought out with compassion and understanding of the pain and grief thatcomes with loss. It seems that almost every entry causes you to say, yes, yes that's how I feel, and although I'm suffering, I'm not alone and all of my feelings are normal. Highly recommend for anyone who has lost a loved one including a pet.

I am very familiar with the daily mediations and readings format. This book was recommended by another member of a grief support group. Very helpful.

I was given this as a gift after my husband passed away. I have been using it for 9 months and find the daily quotes and thoughts very healing. I recently ordered and gave a copy to a friend who had recently lost her husband. She said that it was helpful as well. I like to try to start each morning with a passage for the day.

A friend sent this to me after my husband passed away. I liked it so much I bought a couple for others. The daily messages are short, and just perfect for a griever.

Someone suggested this book, after I lost my 32 year old daughter to cancer. I ordered it, tried to read it, and put it down. It stayed stacked with other books, for two years. The beginning of this year I came across it again, opened and read. Now, I can finally read and appreciate it. It is six days until my daughter's birthday (my Valentine's baby), and this excerpt especially touched my heart."It surprises us. We know it's a fluke. We know it won't last.Happiness? Contentment? Joy?And not just a quick flash of joy, of contentment--as when we are lifted up on wings of song--or by prayer--or by a spectacular sky--or because of a daisy blooming in some field. But a sense that in some way we are going to be able, after all this, to be happy! Whoever would have thought it?.......It is life calling to us--See, you are mine. I have wonders in store for you, believe it or not. And I will wait for you--beneath the snow, if necessary, and beyond the storm."When I came home this summer from being with my three grand children, I was full of joy and love. A thought came, "Why should I be happy? She is gone, and I'm all alone." I decided right there and then, that I would be happy, period. Was I happy that I had lost my daughter? Never in a million years, nor was I happy with how things happened or turned out, but I chose to be happy in life, despite what had happened, she would have wanted that.Now that I can finally read this book, it has brought smiles and tears and is helping me heal even more. I wrote this so that those that are walking this road of shards of glass, when it has turned into a path of pebbles, you can pick this up, read and meditate. By the way, it is still a work in progress, I have many more days of happiness, joy and peace since I made that decision than before. Blessings!

Bought for a friend who had lost her husband

Excellent book. Lots of wisdom.

I wasn't sure what to expect from this book after reading all the reviews. I decided to buy it with great expectations that it might help me deal with the grief I have been carrying for a long time. Some of the grief is from when I lost my Dad at 16 yrs old and now years later losing 4 beloved family members within a 3 year period (: (:At first l wasn't too thrilled with this book~ some days that I would read just didn't apply to me BUT then future days did apply to me. When I did identify with the day, it was like Wowza this is Wonderwooful!I look forward to reading each day because for me it is remembering that it is okay to be sad and happy at the same time.I am a person who loves hard and grieves even harder!Do I recommend this book? Yes