The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

by Judy Tatelbaum

Book Overview

This unusual self-help book about surviving grief offers the reader comfort and inspiration. Each of us will face some loss, sorrow and disappointment in our lives, and The Courage to Grieve provides the specific help we need to enable us to face our grief fully and to recover and grow from the experience. Although the book emphasizes the response to the death of a loved one, The Courage to Grieve can help with every kind of loss and grief.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060911859
• ISBN13: 9780060911850
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The Best Grief Book I've found

I read about 20 books on this subject after the sudden death of my young husband. I was looking for a road map to get through the shock and grief. This book was the only one that really helped me. It is an excellent, practical guide for those who have experienced a death of a loved one. Sudden death is especially traumatic and the book really helped me understand that what I was feeling and doing was perfectly normal. Good Luck.

cheaper than therapy

When I lost my mother, I was searching for answers that I couldn't find in conversations with family and friends. Reading this book gave me the freedom I was searching for in the complex mourning process I was in the middle of. What I read so totally affirmed that what I was feeling both emotionally and physically was a natural process of dealing with the loss of my mother, someone so significant in my life. I would so highly recommend this book to anyone who is trying to reconcile with the loss of a loved one. Sometimes when you can't talk to anyone for answers, the written word offers comfort. I found this book to be of great value.

Courage in times of change

I've finally found the courage to read this book. It was recommended more for learning to grieve for an old life. My friend was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. I needed to grieve for that old life that could never be again. It's helping me through the stages to get to where I can face our new life together. I'd recommend this for anyone going through any of Life's changes: marriage, divorce, death, graduation from college. Even when something is positive (like marriage), one needs to learn that the old way is gone and to find a new path. My marriage is getting better by some of the thoughts I've had after reading this book. I'm learning to let go of old hurts. It's not a silver bullet for all of Life's Ills, but it's a nice, warm cup of tea for the heart or a soothing salve for serious hurts.

Vanished my fear that I was having a nervous breakdown.

I had never been in the position of losing a partner before. I went to a therapist and she gave me this book to read. While reading this book my fears about never being the same again started going away, and I began to feel that it was okay to feel the way I was. This book should be read by anybody who has lost a loved one. I am getting several copies to give to people when they lose a loved one. This book brought me back from the nightmare I was in.

Soothing and compassionate; the very best book about grief.

Having personally experienced the death of my only child seven years ago, I continue to recommend this book to others as the most helpful, validating, and poetic piece of work on the subject. No cliches, no "how to's" ...just gentle compassion and whispers of hope from someone who has obviously "been there" and survived gracefully.