Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) [Paperback]

Alan D. Wolfelt PhD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2003 | Series: Healing Your Grieving Heart series

Helping widows and widowers to learn how to cope with the grief of losing their helpmate, their lover, and perhaps their financial provider, this guide shows them how to find continued meaning in life when doing so seems difficult. Bereaved spouses will find advice on when and how to dispose of their mate's belongings, dealing with their children, and redefining their role with friends and family. Suggestions are provided for elderly mourners, young widows and widowers, unmarried lovers, and same-sex partners. The information and comfort offered apply to individuals whose spouse died recently or long ago.

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About the Author

Alan D Wolfelt PhD, serves as director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition. He writes the 'Children and Grief' column for Bereavement Magazine and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, and Today. He is the author of Healing Your Grieving Heart, Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart, and Understanding Your Grief. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Companion Press (November 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879651378
• ISBN-13: 978-1879651371
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #51 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Death & Grief > Grief & Bereavement

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This was the most helpful book I found when my husband died., September 9, 2008

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Carolyn (KY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) (Paperback)

I read as many books as I could find when my husband died suddenly this year. This was the most helpful one I found. I have since bought at least three more for friends in the same circumstances. I reccommend it highly.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful in a difficult time, April 5, 2010

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This review is from: Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) (Paperback)

This is very helpful at at very difficult time. Allows you to acknowledge the hurtful or less than helpful things that people say and take them with a grain of salt.

Gives some great ideas for you to pick an choose from and do what you need at that time or what is helpful to you. I heard the author speak a few years before the loss of my wife to cancer at 54. When we had our loss I remember what he shared and wanted to get more details plus catch things I might have missed now that I was in the middle of morning and greaving.

Introduction is very good and sets the stage for where he comes from. I am and educator and like his material very much. Got related books of his for my adult children that were college graduates and early in their career when their mother passed away. I read and utilized the one for spouse personally.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful For Putting One Foot in Front of The Other, July 19, 2008

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Esther Alice Reis (Bakersfield, CA) - See all my reviews
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It is so easy to lose sight of daily life and things that need to be done. Uppermost in our minds is the loss of our loved one. How can the rest of the world keep going to work, shopping for groceries, worship, keep up with sporting activities and volunteer work? My world has changed. It is empty. Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart helps to keep us focused during our mourning so we can get back the life our spouse would want us to enjoy living.