Healing After the Loss of Your Mother: A Grief & Comfort Manual

By Elaine Mallon

Book Overview

HEALING AFTER THE LOSS OF YOUR MOTHER -- recognized as among the 100 Best Grief Books Of All Time by GriefAuthority -- is a heartfelt and practical guidebook for those mourning the loss of their mother & for supporters hoping to help a loved one through grief.

Like a compassionate friend, author Elaine Mallon captures the raw, unique pain of losing your mother with empathy, honesty, and eloquence. She tenderly walks the reader through each step of the grieving process, offering straightforward answers to many common questions and addressing fears faced by those in grieving, as well.

This is an essential step-by-step guidebook for anyone uncertain about what to do or where to turn after their mother's death.

For those hoping to support someone through grief, this book also offers insight on how to comfort them by explaining what a person in mourning is going through and how to be most helpful to them.

If you've lost your mother, please know this: If you're grieving, you're healing-and you are not alone.

This grief recovery manual provides helpful information on:

- What Can I Expect? The List

- How Do I Do This? The Process

- How Long Will This Pain Last?

- Getting A Support System

- Shifting Relationships

- Identity Crisis

- Grief Work vs. Allowing

- Coping Tools

- Grief vs. Depression

- When to Seek Help

- Triggers

- Surviving the Holidays

- The New Normal

- The Path Toward Healing

- What to Do/What Not to Do for Someone Grieving

- Grief Community Forum Q&As

*BONUS: PERSONAL JOURNALING SECTION

- Notes to Myself

- Favorite Stories & Memories

- Gratitude Journal

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1733538909
• ISBN13: 9781733538909
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Elaine Mallon
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Best book to help with the death of your mother

I was hesitant to get this since I was worried it would have some religious bs that disregarded the true weight of the death of your mother like I’ve seen in other grief books. Boy, was I wrong. I cannot recommend this book enough. It truly explains everything you’re going through and how impossible everything feels. It fits everyone; son, daughter, young, old, close relationship, strained relationship, and the fact she doesn’t dismiss or belittle what we feel is so validating. This should be the first book you buy to process grief this life altering. Definitely read this alone and in a quiet, calm environment. You will 100% cry.