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How Will I Get Through the Holidays? 12 Ideas for Those Whose Loved One Has Died

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This is a deceptively simple book, quite easy to read, yet potentially transformative. It offers insights, helps and provocative questions that, if carefully considered, can help one navigate the especially difficult currents of holiday grief. It does an excellent job of normalizing predictable crises related to grief during the holiday season, and offers a pathway through the experience with sensitivity, compassion and wisdom.

This book is one of the best I've seen on grief--especially at the holidays. The author has gathered thoughtful quotes and draws on experience as a counselor and pastor to offer practical, heartfelt suggestions on dealing with grief. I've given this book many times as a gift to friends who are facing the holidays without a loved one. I highly encourage the use of this book!

I had received a copy of this book following the death of my husband in 2001. Found it helpful therefore I purchased this one for a friend of mine who recently lost her husband.

The book helps focus you on various ways to channel your grief and help deal with the mixed emotions you are feeling when dealing with the loss of a close, loved one, especially during a time of the year when so many others are celebrating & enjoying the festivities of the holidays...while you may be in a shroud of grief. After losing my father in Oct 2002 to cancer, I got this book back out to give to my partner of 23 years who lost his mother in Oct 2010 at a young age of 67. The hospice team in my hometown gave a copy to each of my three siblings & me and I still find comfort in reading it.

My mistake about ordering this book was that I hadn't realisd that "Holidays" meant days off and not what the American author would have called "Vacation". so it wasn't the help I had wanted. Also the small rather pale print was not in any way compelling neither were the quotations in italics.