Grieving: A Beginner's Guide

by Jerusha Hull McCormack

Book Overview

There is no sure route through grieving. Jerusha McCormack provides instead a series of signposts by which we may find our own path to a new life. "We are all amateurs at grief," she writes, "it comes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557254931
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Paraclete Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Helpful

This book is a help for the newly grieving, especially a widow. Makes a nice gift for someone who has recently lost a spouse. The author wrote from her own experience; it is not the regular stages of grief.

very helpful book

I recommend this book to every young widow. My husband died 4 months ago and I thought my life was over. This book really helped me see that I will survive and will actually be a better person because of my terrible loss. I have marked certain parts of the book that I read and reread on those days that I need help just to get out of bed in the morning. As the title indicates, it really is a guide at a time when a person needs guidance.

Finally a Helpful Book on Grief

Three months after my husbands suicide I came across this book at the local library. Most of the books I've read on the subject of grief and being a widow all say the same things, or say what I already know and understand. The author of this book talks very plainly and frankly about her grief, and tries very hard to find a different perspective to view this whole horrible process from. I really appreciated the approach, as I too have tried to make sense and understand how to deal with the loss of my husband and what that means for my future. After reading it I thouht "finally a helpful book about grief". Hence the subject title for this review.

I found meaningful help for me as a bereaved person

I write as a man whose wife died of cancer after 36 years and 10 months of marriage. This book appeals to me as an honest, tough look at what it means to grieve. I have gained a lot from its models on how grieving can be turned around - if one is willing to work with it - so that loss can be made into something positive. This kind of down-to-earth guidance I found nowhere else. For someone in pain - or trying to help someone suffering from bereavement - this is an invaluable book, short and readable but full of practical advice with rich spiritual implications. Without a doubt the best book I have found on the subject.