Review
Jamieson and her family have lived the nightmare that keeps the rest of us awake at night--just thinking about the journey ahead. This is a journey that you do not need to take alone. Mom Minus Dad acts as the travel guide for adult children and aging parents to follow as they face the inevitable end-of-life issues. On the road map, Jamieson has posted warning signs based upon personal experience to keep you on the right track, and she offers pothole-free roads to follow with her extensive resource listing. This is a must-have resource book for all families. --
Jeanne K. Smith, estate organization expert and founder of Exit Stage Right® (www.exitstageright.com)Mom Minus Dad is a good, steady companion for anyone facing the inevitable life transition of the death of a parent and the ensuing grief. Jamieson has written a book filled with practical information and gentle wisdom for coping with the vast and easily overwhelming details and experiences left to the surviving family members when a parent dies. Using skillfully shared personal experience, she implicitly and explicitly illustrates presence, compassion, and self-care as containers for effectively managing the myriad tasks and stages following a parent's death. I enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone coping with or anticipating the death of a parent. --
Jeffrey Brantley MD, director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke Integrative Medicine (www.dukeintegrativemedicine.org/), author of Calming Your Anxious Mind, and coauthor of the Five Good Minutes book series (www.fivegoodminutes.com/)Mom Minus Dad, provides a real service to anyone facing the death of a loved one. No one in our culture wants to discuss death and its surrounding grief and responsibilities. Jamieson not only provides an encyclopedic guide to resources and information but also shares her own personal struggle with her father's death. By sharing the experiences she, her mother, and sister Ivy endured, she will make the journey for others less difficult. --
--Carolyn Newton Curry, PhD, founder and director of Women Alone Together (www.womenalonetogther.org)This is the most incredible resource I have ever seen--prepared with such care and concern, as well as always-needed humor and reassurance. Ms. Haverkampf not only shares from her own experience but also has organized exhaustive research, which will make your journey much easier! --
Lulu Orr, executive director, Good Grief Center for Bereavement Support www.goodgriefcenter.com Lulu Orr, Executive Director of the Good Grief Center for Bereavement Support (www.goodgriefcenter.com)Very readable and informative. The author engages the reader immediately. It's like sitting down over the kitchen table with a good friend who, through the lens of her own personal experience, acts like a mentor, guide, and soft shoulder to lean on. Rich with resources and packed with very practical and "doable" suggestions. A "must-have" for anyone who has suffered the loss of a parent. Our firm will be recommending the book to our own clients. --
Gene L. Osofsky, elder-law attorney www.osofskylaw.com Gene Osofsky, Elder Law Attorney (www.osofskylaw.com)2008 Winner of the Honorable Mention for Non-Fiction award in the Writer's Digest Magazine's 16th Annual International Self-Published Book Awards --Writer's Digest Magazine
Mom Minus Dad: The Essential Resource Guide for Busy Adults with a Newly Widowed Parent is a Mom's Choice Awards® Silver Recipient --Mom's Choice Awards (2009)
Jamieson Haverkampf's new book is an essential resource for busy adults with a newly widowed parent. Written with care and concern, Mom Minus Dad, offers consolation through the lens of personal experience. Discover how to reduce your newly widowed parent;s and your workloads, manage and organizer paperwork easily, choose the best way to manage family finances and guide your parent's new decisions while maintaining personal boundaries. Packed with resources, sound advice and manageable solutions, the book strives to help adult children caught in the modern-day, hectic life-style get through the loss of a parent, while supporting another parent. -- Toronto Canada's Rehab and Community Care Medicine Toronto Canada's Rehab and Community Care Medicine Magazine
Review
Mom Minus Dad is a good, steady companion for anyone facing the inevitable life transition of the death of a parent and the ensuing grief. Jamieson has written a book filled with practical information and gentle wisdom for coping with the vast and easily overwhelming details and experiences left to the surviving family members when a parent dies. Using skillfully shared personal experience, she implicitly and explicitly illustrates presence, compassion, and self-care as containers for effectively managing the myriad tasks and stages following a parent's death. I enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone coping with or anticipating the death of a parent.
Jamieson Haverkampf learned to balance her own life with a newly widowed parent when she aided her mother in Virginia while still running her real estate business in California after her father's death. Her new book, Mom Minus Dad: The Essential Resource Guide for Busy Adults with a Newly Widowed Parent, is filled with more than 500 Web sites, companies, government resources, U.S. laws, books and nonprofit organizations to assist adult children with a newly widowed parent. Haverkampf is a certified grief recovery specialist who now resides in Atlanta. Momminusdad.com.
