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Healing After Loss (Daily Meditations)
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About the Author
MARTHA WHITMORE HICKMAN is the author of more than twenty books for adults and children. Among her adult titles are The Growing Season, Fullness of Time, and I Will Not Leave You Desolate. Books for young children include And God Created Squash, When Andy's Father Went to Prison, and Eeps Creeps, It's My Room.
A native of Massachusetts and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Mount Holyoke, she has lived in the south for many years. To her writing she brings the additional perspective of being a wife, mother, grandmother, and sometime editor and teacher. She presently lives with her husband in Nashville, Tennessee.
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364 of 366 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"Healing After Loss" was given to me after the sudden and unexpected death of our 14 year old son in March. The loss is so terrible and unimagined. We have struggled to go through each day without our only child, our wonderful son.
The friend who gave me the book had lost both her parents and her maternal grandparents within a 10 year span. She actually brought over her own dog-eared copy saying that I needed it now and she didn't have time to get a new one. Since then I have ordered my own as well as copies for my parents, Aunts and Uncles and friends.
This book has incredibly insight, hope, understanding and some new ideas delivered in small doses (the tiny shafts of light in the darkness). Since concentration levels are so affected during grieving, the one page entries are easy to read or skip, if you need a one that will more fit your moment. With grief, at least for me, it seems like my mood and outlook can change so much within a couple days - this book fills many needs.
Although my husband hasn't read it like I have, I will now and again give him a page to read that is particularly insightful for us at that moment and it can, however briefly, help him as well.
At first I read what ever I turned to when I opened it, then I read all the dates that were significant to me, now I am reading it like a daily diary. Last week I was talking to my friend, she has a copy, and although she listened she didn't feel she had an answer for me. Later, she called back giving me a page in the book to read - it was so completely accurate for that moment and feeling - I felt a bit of strength after reading the page.
I cannot say enough about the author and her grace, strength and ability to comfort. She wrote another very small book called "I Will Not Leave You Desolate" that I would recommend as well.
If you are purchasing this for yourself, I am so sorry for your loss - I know something of the dark, sad and surreal world that appears without the one you loved. I hope this book can be of some comfort to you as it was for me. Of course this is only one tiny shaft of light in the darkness, but I am grateful for each one. If you are getting it for a friend or family member, bless you and your efforts to be there.
The friend who gave me the book had lost both her parents and her maternal grandparents within a 10 year span. She actually brought over her own dog-eared copy saying that I needed it now and she didn't have time to get a new one. Since then I have ordered my own as well as copies for my parents, Aunts and Uncles and friends.
This book has incredibly insight, hope, understanding and some new ideas delivered in small doses (the tiny shafts of light in the darkness). Since concentration levels are so affected during grieving, the one page entries are easy to read or skip, if you need a one that will more fit your moment. With grief, at least for me, it seems like my mood and outlook can change so much within a couple days - this book fills many needs.
Although my husband hasn't read it like I have, I will now and again give him a page to read that is particularly insightful for us at that moment and it can, however briefly, help him as well.
At first I read what ever I turned to when I opened it, then I read all the dates that were significant to me, now I am reading it like a daily diary. Last week I was talking to my friend, she has a copy, and although she listened she didn't feel she had an answer for me. Later, she called back giving me a page in the book to read - it was so completely accurate for that moment and feeling - I felt a bit of strength after reading the page.
I cannot say enough about the author and her grace, strength and ability to comfort. She wrote another very small book called "I Will Not Leave You Desolate" that I would recommend as well.
If you are purchasing this for yourself, I am so sorry for your loss - I know something of the dark, sad and surreal world that appears without the one you loved. I hope this book can be of some comfort to you as it was for me. Of course this is only one tiny shaft of light in the darkness, but I am grateful for each one. If you are getting it for a friend or family member, bless you and your efforts to be there.
81 of 83 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Is anyone ever ready to lose a love one -- no matter the age or devastation of illness? I know I was not. My husband was and still is a most important person in my life. I felt totally disconnected when he died and still struggle with it daily. If not for this wonderful book of daily meditations, there are days when getting out of bed would have been more than I could do. 6 months after Jack's death, I am now able to occasionally notice the lovely blue sky, hear the birds signing, and feel the sun on my face. My grief therapy is only effective in the slow healing of this grievous wound in my soul with the daily reminders in this compilation by Hickman and being encouraged to recall the wonderfulness of Jack, my husband, my best friend, my life love.
86 of 89 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
I was dealing with the devastation and loss of my husband after a fight with the evil cancer. I did not want to live. My whole life changed and I would have done anything to have him back. But, I kept living and I couldn't get him back no matter what. This book has had a profound affect in helping me deal with and get through this painful phase called grieving. The writings of 365 different people and days describes so effectively the feelings and reality of what grief is. I still read it daily. So many of the comparisons hit home. I have bought it for two friends who have recently lost loved ones. I highly recommend it to any grieving person who needs to understand the emotional and painful process they are going through. You aren't alone.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nice Book
I read this book daily to help me through the grief of losing my daughter. I bought this copy as a gift to my other daughter to help her.
Published 22 hours ago by Rob
5.0 out of 5 stars
Daily support
This book has wonderful readings for those who lost loved ones. I have given a copy to friends who need support
Published 1 day ago by Deanna Finn
4.0 out of 5 stars
dealing with sudden death after short illness
I have other books on grief, but I wanted something that sort of summarized feelings one at a time. Even though I have been reading these out of chronological order, they have been... Read more
Published 7 days ago by Pat Xavier
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good daily reading for all losses
This book has a one page daily reading related to grief. It is appropriate for any loss - parent, spouse, child, friend, etc. Read more
Published 10 days ago by Danielle
5.0 out of 5 stars
loss
This book has helped me not to feel all alone after the death of my spouse of 40 years. Small little chapters one can read over and over. Read more
Published 11 days ago by Nancy Spurlin
5.0 out of 5 stars
Meditations
Good to read on a daily basis to help heal your soul and sorrow without needing to ask others for help.
Found it a great help.
Found it a great help.
Published 15 days ago by kathleen hughes
5.0 out of 5 stars
A daily comfort in times of grief
This book kept me going for the first year after my husband died. I have given it to several friends who agree that it proved to be a comforting support system. Read more
Published 15 days ago by Claride W. Mayo
5.0 out of 5 stars
So helpful after a loss
After my husband's death -- after 64.5 years of a wonderful marriage, a friend gave me one. After a few weeks, I ordered seven more to send to friends who had losses. Read more
Published 16 days ago by Maryann C. Lund
5.0 out of 5 stars
Healing
This daily meditation book is helping me to heal and know that what I am feeling is normal. thank you
Published 18 days ago by Suzi
5.0 out of 5 stars
It really helped
Bought this after my child died, it took awhile but the quotes started to have meaning and significance after awhile. It'll be a year May 8. Read more
Published 18 days ago by ArmyOfficer
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