My blog's focus started out as an exercise to help me learn to live with the deep grief I was experiencing after my daughter's unexpected death. Looking back on the blog I truly hope some of the posts have touched other people's hearts who are living with the heartbreak of losing someone they love. Many years later the focus shifted to include things that I find interesting or compelled to share but I have never lost the main focus of the blog--GRIEF. (updated Jan 2024)
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Books that helped me...
Many years ago, when I created the blog, I listed books that brought me comfort and a different view of death. When I was finally able to function after Laura's sudden death, I strived to read everything I could about losing a child. My books became my friends. Some of them I read over and over. My human friends were not capable of understanding me at the time, which was no fault of theirs. I would never want them to be insightful because if they did that would mean they too suffered a tremendous loss. No one can understand the pain of saying goodbye to a child unless they had to do so.
I am in the process of sorting through the books (my dear old friends) because now my vision is impaired, and I can't read the actual books anymore. I will not discard them! I am deciding which ones to donate and which ones I still want to hold onto for a while longer. They mean that much to me.
The list appears at the foot of the blog, way down the page. While sorting I thought I would take the time to repost the list. I am positive there are many new books on the subject since 2008 but there is always comfort in the old too.
I am grateful for words that heal...
- Comfort: A Journey through Grief, Ann Hood
- Healing after Loss, Martha Whitmore Hickman
- http://www.lucelucina.com
- http://www.theshackbook.com/
- I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One, Pamela Blair
- Journey of Souls, Michael Newton
- Our Children, Our Hearts, Emily Laitmon
- Saved by the Light, Brinkley, Dannion
- Signs from Above, Doreen Virtue & Charles Vitrue
- The Climb by Miley Cyrus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2zyeVRcbs
- This Thing Called Grief: New Understanding of Loss, Thomas M Ellis
- Unfinished Business, James Van Praagh
- When the Bough Breaks: Forever after the death of a son or daughter, Judith R. Bernstein
Monday, September 2, 2024
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