As helpful as friends and family can be, often times they cannot provide the understanding you need because they don’t know what you are going through after suffering a devastating loss.
In “The Road to Recovery” you learn that you come to a crossroads in life when you lose someone very dear to you. To help you choose the right path, it is vital to read the work of someone who knows full well the deep sorrow you feel and can provide both comfort and practical advice that works. The author lost his college sweetheart and wife of four and a half years in a commercial airline crash in 1997. She was only 27 years old. He wrote this book to help other through the grieving process.
What Others are Saying about “The Road to Recovery: Overcoming & Moving Beyond Your Grief.”
“The contents are amazing and profound. Your words rang loud and true when I read them. Wish I had found this book earlier.” – Terry Welch, sister to Michael Ryan lost on Comair flight 5196, Aug. 27, 2006.
“This book contains so many insightful, appropriate and helpful ideas and suggestions. God bless you.” – Kelly Markillie, pastoral counselor at The Cathedral of Christ The King, Atlanta, GA.
“I lost my son in the World Trade Center [911] and I found your book so comforting.” – Patricia Noah, mother of Leonard M. Castrianno, Cantor Fitzgerald, 105th floor WTC.
Excerpt from this grief support guide:
If grief can be summed up in a nutshell, it is how we feel now that an important person is no longer in our life. In essence, we hurt and feel sorry for ourselves. Our focus is usually on what WE lost. Grief, of course, is a normal reaction to the loss of someone or something. Each of us will handle these feelings in our own way and in our own time. There is no blueprint to the process and no timetable to how long you will hurt.
Author J. William Worden describes four facets of mourning:
1 – Accepting the reality of the loss
2 – Experiencing the pain of grief
3 – Adjusting to an environment without the lost loved one
4 – Reinvesting emotional energy in life
Having been through the complete grief process, I can relate to each of these “steps.” Accepting the loss almost immediately helped me move on with my mourning quicker, although it didn’t make anything easier.
I cannot help you acknowledge the reality of your loss. Only you can do that, and hopefully you are well past that stage by the time you receive this book.
Sometimes, intense feelings of grief will catch us by surprise. It may startle you when you fall “into the pits” several months after the tragedy. It is at this time that many people will be expecting you to be over your loss. Don’t believe them. It is only normal for this to happen. Just remember your grief is unique. No one else is just like you. No one else had the same relationship with the person who died.
Understand that a main purpose of grief is to help you reach the point in your life when you can remember without the pain.
What I present in this book are several steps to help you get through the grieving process in a positive way.
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“Grief only comes in one size, extra large.” — Dennis Manning
