Bereavement Books
Grief Recovery Books
Bereavement books and books about grief can be some of the most helpful resources for understanding the grief process. Counselors often encourage those in grief to start reading from other people's grief experiences. However, I also know that during bereavement the mind has a very hard time staying focused. So my advice is read as you can, not as you can't. Find one or two grief recovery books or personal experience books that fit your style and read it in small portions. The small portions is one reason I feel my own book
Seasons of Solace
is helpful bereavement reading. It contains approximately 30 narrative, slice-of-life poems, along with photos from nature that metaphorically speak to the emotion of grief. Recently a friend told me that he loaned his copy of Seasons of Solace to a woman who had recently lost her husband. When he went back to visit a week later, he asked her if she was finished with the book. She said, "Please let me keep it a little while longer, I page through it every day." So, of course, he gave her the copy to keep. Top Books about Grief Click on the title to see my review:
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
On Grief and Grieving by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Getting Back to Life When Grief Won't Heal by Phyllis Kosminsky
On Life After Death by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
When People Grieve: Guidance for Grievers and the Friends Who Care by Paula D'Arcy
Life is Goodbye, Life is Hello: Grieving Well through All Kinds of Loss by Alla Renee Bozarth
Grieving: Our Path Back to Peace by James R. White
How to Survive the Loss of a Love by Melba Colgrove, Harold Bloomfield and Peter McWilliams
When a Loved One Dies by Philip Williams
Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman
Back to Life: Your Personal Guidebook to Grief Recovery is an e-book written by Jennie Wright, RN, GCC. This link will open a new window to her website. Keep checking back--more review of books about grief to come later.
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A Grace Disguised
A Grace Disguised by Gerald Sittser is quite simply profound.
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Turn My Mourning into Dancing by Henri Nouwen
After losing my husband unexpectedly in 2005, Turn My Mourning into Dancing rescued my broken soul. I re-read it every 6 months or so and I have several ...
Transcending Loss: Understanding the Lifelong Impact of Grief and How to Make it Meaningful
Transcending Loss by Ashley Davis Prend saved my life. It was the first book that I read (and I read a few) that not only made me feel that grieving ...
Psalms of Lament by Ann Weems
Psalms of Lament by Ann Weems, forward by Walter Brueggemann, Westminister John Knox Press, Louisville, KY, 1995. Ann wrote these psalms of lament ...
Tear Soup - A Recipe for Healing After Loss
Comfort Food! Wonderful illustrations and very good reading. Grandy has just suffered a big loss in her life, and so she is cooking up her own unique batch ...
The Last Rose: A True Celebration of Eternal Life
On March 6, 2004, Thomas Pierce, his wife, JoAnn, and his daughter Lisa were on the water taxi that overturned in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. He lost both ...
Writing Toward the Light: a grief journey
Laura Flett was a recently retired single mother when her only child killed himself at age 23. She had begun journaling a year or so earlier and the practice ...
"The Journey Through Grief" Reflections On Healing
A Great book by Dr. Alan D. Wolfelt
Organized around the six needs that all mourners must yield to.
Indeed Embrace.
Spiritual Passages that, when read ...
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