Where is God When it Hurts?
In this book the author goes into great depths about pain and the physical reasons for it and benefits of it and the emotional growth that can come from it.
In this book the author goes into great depths about pain and the physical reasons for it and benefits of it and the emotional growth that can come from it.
This one is for women who have lost a child (whether through miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death). The author lost 2 children to miscarriage and one was stillborn. Each section has journal entry from right after she learned her little girl Molly would be stillborn and then there is another section from Dawn years later…
Practical supportive advice for bereaved parents and the professionals who work with them, based on the experiences of psychiatric and religious counselors. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: “Certainly, in the early days after our son died, no one could have patted us on the our heads and convinced us everything would be all right. Nor will this…
This book is a fantastic instruction manual for how to live after loss. Every idea is presented on a single page so even people in the depths of grief who are unable to focus for even 5 minutes at a time can still read it in very short intervals. And for each of the 100…
Book Summary by Jennifer Hacker Good Grief by Granger Westberg (also known as the Westberg model of grief) is especially useful for those who don’t like to read or cannot concentrate long enough to get through a long book. This book is 64 total pages. You can finish it in less than an hour. It’s…
This book offers helpful information for every stage of the grieving process and years beyond. Some of the Chapter titles are: A Parent’s Lonely Grief Grieving and Emotional Recovery Physical Recovery The Early Months Affirming Your Baby Painful Feelings Resolution of Grief Especially for Fathers You and Your Partner Your Family Support Networks The Subsequent…
Book summary from Amazon: When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease that meant the boy would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when…