Bereavement Care - Self-Help Guide

Helpful books

We recommend the following grief and loss books as both helpful and comforting for those grieving the loss of a loved one.

How to go on living when someone you loves dies Therese Rando This easy and practical read helps you understand the grieving process and find comfort in learning you are ‘normal’ in your grief. This self- help book provides specific coping strategies for different situations. Tear Soup Pat Schweibert This book is informative about grief for adults as well as children. Good for a grieving family to read together.

I Wasn’t Ready To Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One Brook Noel & Pamela D Blair These two women have been there themselves, tell their stories, then provide a helpful hands-on approach to dealing with grief. It offers practical exercises for working through the mourning process. Especially helpful during the first weeks after a sudden tragic loss. Safe Passage: Words to Help the Grieving Hold Fast and Let Go Molly Fumia This book was written as the author belatedly mourned the loss of her first-born son. A compassionate, soothing book which helps the grieving hold fast to the memory of their loved one while passing through anger, confusion, guilt and loneliness to acceptance and transformation. Recommended for later on in the grief process.

A Grief Observed C.S. Lewis

Mr Lewis marries late to the love of his life, who died four years later of bone cancer. This book is his heavy spiritual journey through grief following her death.

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