Healing a Parent's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Child Dies (Healing a Grieving Heart series)

Recommend for all grieving parents

Great book to read and share

When you are in the depth of grief, the last thing you want is something heavy or preachy. This book fit my needs perfectly. Some great suggestions on how to process my grief. It didn’t fix everything, nothing can take away the hurt of losing my granddaughter, but it helps.

I lost my son to suicide last year and have read many books on the topic. I got sort of "stuck" in my grieving and needed something to help me move forward. I liked this book because it has great ideas for getting through one day at a time and making positive forward progress. The chapters are short and easy to digest. It was a comfort to read in a time of sorrow. And I know I can go back to it if I get "stuck" again, to look for a new idea I haven't tried yet.

Alan Wolfelt PhD is one of the most knowledgeable and experienced grief and loss mental health professionals in the United States. Death of a child is outside the natural order. Parents never expect a child to die. Alan shares 100 practical ideas to help deal with the death of child.

I have read through the 100 practical ideas 3 times, and they have been of great comfort, even in the early weeks when nothing was helping the devastating pain. I will keep rereading the chapters and putting the ideas into practice.

I bought this book to help my niece who recently lost her 22 year old son. She was still in shock and when you are in that phase of the grieving process, there is probably not much that is going to help other than time to go through it. This book will be helpful at different times. It also lets you know you are not alone.

Grief, it's a very difficult thing to explain, and how each and every person deals and continues to function afterwards. I didn't even read the whole thing. Just because it didn't work for me doesn't mean it wouldn't work for someone else. I couldn't connect to much of his words or the stories. It all feels generic in someway for me. When it has come to therapy or books for me our children when dealing with the grief, I feel we need someone with the abilty to truly grasp what it is we are feeling. If you've done years and years of studying and monitoring of people with grief, but you yourself haven't had what we are experiencing happen ... I can't get on board. There are so many authors and so many books out there, but more to need to be written by someone who actually knows this horrific pain for people and can understand it fully. Not someone who just can explain things people have said well, and your information is done through interviewing and counseling on grieving parents. I still don't feel your an expert. The pain doesn't consume the author/counselor the same as the people living it daily, their life goes right back to normal everyday when they've gone home or that client leaves their office. But absolutely does not for the parent or patient. Do I think the author cares who wrote it, absolutely. However until it's a book written by someone who lives and breathes this themselves. Or has had a similar loss to experience the pain level as the reader or patient..... I will keep looking.

I sent this book to very dear friends who lost a son to a very tragic accident. They really found some healing and understanding to their grief responses. Amazing book!!

Great

I bough this for my in laws after they lost their other son and they have found it incredibly helpful. They had mentioned this book as it was recommended to them by their therapist.

A must read for any parent who is grieving

Excellent book, I have found it very useful in bereavement. M.