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

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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.

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.

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.

After the sudden loss of my husband, I recently purchased this book to help me get through the grief process. I found this book to be extremely helpful and insightful in identifying the myriad of feelings I am experiencing. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has suffered the loss of their spouse.

This makes about the twelfth copy of this book that I've purchased. It was a great resource for me and now I share it with friends that have lost spouses and also bought a few for our church bereavement group. Each "chapter" is one page and pinpoints all the things a grieving spouse might encounter.

When my mom died I purchased many books for my dad and this was the one that helped him the most.

I am a school counselor, and recently a father of one of my students lost his wife. His son shared that his Dad was really struggling. I was searching on Amazon for material to work with my student when I came across this book. I ordered it and read through it, and found it more appealing than other books. While validating normal feelings, it gave practical, behavioral suggestions on dealing with spousal grief.

My husband recently passed away at age 69, having had Alzheimers for the last 14 years. We had had a very close and strong marriage and while I knew his passing was inevitable and, towards the end, imminent, I thought I was prepared for it. However, when the time came I realised just how hard it really was, and still is. I initially borrowed this book from our local library, and could immediately see how helpful it would be, so ordered one of my own. Can thoroughly recommend this book for any spouse who has suffered a bereavement and is struggling to cope.

I purchased this book for a co-worker when her 54-yr. old husband died suddenly. They were inseparable and did everything together in their 30-yr. marriage. She has thanked me profusely for the wonderful gift, saying it is really helping her through her grief. The chapters are short (which is good when you are having a hard time focusing on anything); and the advice is modern, up-to-date, practical and "non-preachy." Because of the wonderful response I received from giving this book, others have asked where they could get this book to give to someone they know who would benefit from it. I recommend it to everyone!

The advice in this book is valuable and useful. The difficulty is that it is printed in a small, gray font. Good advice; poor printing.