Books:
Books our members personally recommend:
- I'm Grieving As Fast As I Can:
How Young Widows and Widowers Can Cope and Heal by Linda Feinberg,
1994.
I highly recommend this book – it was probably the most
helpful grief book that I read. It was written by a social worker
who runs support groups for young widows and widowers and is one
of the few books that spends considerable time addressing the
challenges of being a young widowed person. The book validated
my feelings and also offered helpful advice.
- Getting to the Other Side of Grief
by Susan J. Zonnebelt-Smeenge and Robert C. DeVries, 1999.
This book offers the perspectives of two widowed people, a psychologist
and a pastor. It is well written and insightful and helped me
realize that there were actions I could take that would help me
heal.
- Seven Choices: Finding Daylight
After Loss Shatters Your World by Elizabeth Harper Neeld, 2003.
This book is great for that time period when you have gotten through
a lot of the initial shock and confusion and are starting to wonder
what to do next. This book helped me begin to think about how
to rebuild my life.
- Companion Through the Darkness:
Inner Dialogues on Grief, Stephanie Ericsson 1993.
This is not a self-help book, and it offers no advice to the newly
widowed. Instead it is a deeply intimate and honest portrayal
of the author’s own grief after the loss of her husband
while she was pregnant with their only child. In revealing her
own heartaches and challenges, Stephanie validated so many of
my similar feelings and experiences.
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