Lets face itlosing a loved one stinks! To encourage, enlighten, and entertain those who have lost a loved one

Appreciation for "Good Grief" Good Grief is a manual filled with real life solutions of how to cope with grief. It offers hope to the hurting and a way to heal the scars of grief. Donna Williams RN- Hospice nurse for over 20 years As a breast cancer survivor, I have been able to look at my emotions differently since I have read this book. This book gave me a different perspective on the way I could grieve. Judy McLaughlin - Breast Cancer Survivor This book is about the one thing EVERYONE needs to learn how to do-Grieve! However, grief is more far-reaching than death! Everyone experiences losses they must grieve. It is important to recognize the various forms, shapes and sizes of loss in your life and how to "grieve" them. Types of loss include: Amputation; Abuse; Abortion; Adoption; Accident; Aging; Bankruptcy; Betrayal; Custody; Cancer; Companionship; Death; Divorced; Downsized; Empty Nest; Eviction; Fired; Friendship; Heart Attack; Health; Infertility; Independence; Jobless; Lawsuit; Legal Issues; Miscarriage; Molestation; Rape; Retirement; Stroke; Stillbirth; Security; Tragedy; Trauma; Unemployment; Underemployment; Widow/Widower; Youth... Good Grief is an easy read and an excellent tool to help you understand grief and loss. Good Grief will give you the proper tools to overcome this incredibly powerful but often overlooked emotion. About the Author: Bryan G. Karchner has been in the helping profession all his working life. Since 1983, Bryan has served in several capacities: industrial arts teacher; youth pastor; houseparent for emotionally disturbed adolescents; counselor; pastor and church planter. He has an M.A. in Pastoral Psychology and Counseling and an M. Div. in Biblical Studies. Bryan has been married to his lovely wife Linda since 1988 and is the proud father of three beautiful boys.

A companion to the bestselling book Good Grief, these wise and honest meditations are for anyone on the journey through grief and loss. Whether you are struggling with your own loss or walking with a friend or family member who is grieving, you know the journey is not smooth or straightforward. The Good Grief Devotional offers wise, honest companionship to those who are struggling with a divorce, the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, or another major life transition. Pastor Brent D. Christianson's fifty-two devotions follow the ten stages of grief outlined in Granger Westberg's helpful bestseller Good Grief. First published in 1968, Good Grief has helped millions of people find comfort and validation for their grief, a deeper understanding of their feelings, and helpful ways to live with loss while moving toward a new reality. Each section of the book begins with a reflection on a particular stage of the grief process and then considers what that stage means for our self-understanding and relationships with everything around us, including creation and God. Each devotion ends with questions to think about and discuss with another person, healing actions to consider, and a prayer. The Good Grief Devotional provides inviting, pastoral care, helps us face the reality of loss, and points toward hope. You will return to this collection of meditations year after year as you progress through your journey.

"Good Grief will bring hope to those who feel, that because of the sheer pain of their loss, there could never be another tomorrow worth living." - Rob Parsons OBE, Chairman and Founder, Care for the Family We all walk through grief and loss. It comes in many shapes and forms. As a husband, father, son and a pastor, for the past thirty-four years, Malcolm Duncan has experienced loss in many forms. Duncan has seen grief destroy some people, and his own experience of loss and grief came close to destroying him. Yet God has carried him through. In this intensely personal journal, Duncan guides the reader through grief and loss, examining how it changes us, and affirms that God is with us every step of the way. Intimate and well-grounded in scripture, Malcolm Duncan shows us that no matter how dark it gets, the light of His grace will always be there.

My wife and I were married for 60 years she was my buddy and my pal, we were inseperable, in the years that I commercial fi shed she was right by my side. I met her after I returned from the navy in 1947 we fell in love and married soon after. Th is book tries to explain the deep sorrow and pressing questions that follow the death of a close loved one. Her unexpected death left our family in shock. Virginia was her name and she was loved by all that she met. Th is book asks some sensitive questions about life and the here after, many of you may relate to this books questions ??

At age twelve, author Thomas Michael Johnson faced the death of a great-grandparent he was close to as a child. That trauma left him with an irrational fear of losing loved ones. By the time he married and became a father, the fear of death living within him was incapacitating and debilitating, often causing difficulties in his personal and professional life. Seeking freedom from this terror, Johnson began to understand the difference between joy and happiness; he was delivered from the fear some six weeks before his wife’s untimely demise. After nearly nineteen years of marriage, he woke to find his beloved wife had passed away while he slept. He suddenly became a single parent of three sons (ages seventeen, thirteen, and twelve), struggling through the typical single-parent issues with an added layer of grief. Johnson’s middle son’s autism added to the challenges. In Good Grief, Johnson shares an account of the trepidation he lived through as a young man, his freedom from the fear of death before his wife died, and the two years following her death. This memoir focuses on the lessons he learned from God directly, from scripture, and from the tight-knit group of family and friends God had given him. Raw and authentic, Johnson chronicles a story of his experience as a grieving widower, a single father, and a broken child of God who had no choice but to ask for help from those surrounding him, while trying to restore joy in his home.

New York Times bestselling author Theresa Caputo, star of Long Island Medium and Raising Spirits provides a guide to overcoming grief, filled with inspiring lessons from Spirit and astonishing stories from the clients who have been empowered and healed by her spiritual readings. After more than a decade of being a practicing medium, Theresa Caputo shares the powerful lessons she has learned about grief, healing, and finding happiness in the wake of tragedy. In almost every reading she gives, Spirit insists that people begin to embrace their lives again. But not everyone knows where to start, and putting back together the pieces of a life marked by loss is never easy. Sometimes, you need spiritual guidance—and that’s where Theresa comes in. With her energetic, positive, and encouraging tone, Theresa uses the lessons from Spirit to guide you through grief toward a place of solace and healing. Each lesson is grounded in her clients’ experiences of losing loved ones, their encounters with Spirit during readings, and the ways in which they’ve been able to heal and grow. Each chapter is filled with activities to help you find your “new normal”—including journaling, individual and group exercises, meditations, and moments of reflection—based on the truths that Theresa has gathered from Spirit. Good Grief—“an excellent resource for those who wish to be in communication with deceased loved ones” (Library Journal)—will help you to feel stronger and more optimistic about what the future has in store for you.

This is an inspirational testimony of how God demonstrates His grace in human tragedy. Suzie Borrows battled for her husband’s life, praying for a miracle. Hers is a story of love, loss and new life; a story of holding on to God’s promises in faith; a story of talking to the Lord about everything and seeing Him answer prayer in unexpected and unimagined ways. This is the story of a woman laying her faith on the Word of God and believing Him for the literal truth of His Word; speaking His Word back to Him and humbly reminding Him of those promises. His answers to her heartfelt cries were provided through undeniable revelations which exceeded her dreams. Through His many mercies to Suzie, God’s purpose gradually became her purpose. As human beings we may all enjoy blessings, such as family, health and prosperity, but we will also likely suffer loss, hardship and grief. Suzie’s discovery of the ultimate power of God and His Word, along with her growing understanding of how much He truly loves us, transformed her life. Come along with her and experience the miraculous hand of God in the midst of her circumstances. He is no respecter of persons and wants you to know His love in a tangible way as well. Your faith will be ignited, just as Suzie’s was as she walked hand in hand with the Lord.

This book is for everyone who has lost a loved one or knows someone who has (which should include most people reading this). The topics of death, dying, funerals, and/or grief are typically as welcome as a time share presentation at the conclusion of a really great deal you got on a vacation package at a resort. It is the necessary evil at the end of the fun. In Good Grief. Celebrate Your Life, Jason gently steers the reader into a different perspective of each of these topics and offers hope and counsel to people who grope for answers in difficult situations: "What do I say to someone who is grieving?" "Why make a fuss over my funeral? I'll be dead and gone."The grief journey has a significant correlation to the funeral or memorial service (or lack thereof), which is why Jason suggests to celebrate your life or your loved one's life so that the journey of grief can, in fact, be good. Most everyone grieves (many more things than the death of a loved one). This book will help you not only in your personal journey of grief but also will guide you in ways to get your arms around others who are grieving, along with fun suggestions of celebrating the lives of your loved ones who are still here with you now.Get ready for an intimate, personal, one-on-one conversation with Jason, then use the information to help others celebrate life too.

Unmet expectations and conflicts arise, when a person is hurting and doesnt know what they need, and their loved ones dont know what to say or how to help. By the time author Erica McNeal was thirty-two years old, she was already a three-time cancer survivor, and had experienced the loss of five children, two of which she held in her arms. Those close to her were not sure of how to console her, and some well-intended comments only served to hurt Erica and her family in their healing process. For example, imagine being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, at twenty-two years old, and having your best friend tell you that she wished she had cancer too, so that people would like her. Or imagine being pressured to hold a friends babya child that was born the same day you buried your daughter, in order to prove your love for the couple. These statements represent only a fraction, and not even the worst, of the painful words spoken to her family while they struggled through cancer treatments and grieved the loss of their children. Good Grief! is a book filled with tangible solutions for determining what to say, what not to say, and what to do, in order to love others well, through difficult times!