This book is extremely validating and supportive for anyone experiencing loss and grief. Beautiful paragraphs that made me cry and smile. I marked this book up and will go back to it when needed. This book’s main emphasis is to face your grief—not run away from it. Facing your grief is extremely difficult, but you have to do it eventually. Grief can make you angry, numb, and hopeless. But with time, it can also make you compassionate, loving, and soft. Grief never shrinks or disappears—we grow around it.
I highly recommend this book for anyone who is grieving. I lost my son back in November 2024 and a lot of stuff that is in this book I’ve been going through. I felt like the author was talking to me. It really helped me put into perspective of what I’m going through and how to cope with the loss of my son.
My first Jacqueline book and i’m glad i just bought two of her books (my next read would be All that you deserve; i hope it’s much better than this one). I almost cried in the first pages of this book bcs it reminds me of my dad (alm), but the more i read the book the more i realized it’s just a repetitive phrase again and again until i’m bored.