The Essential Guide to Grief and Grieving: An Understanding Guide to Coping with Loss . . . and Finding Hope and Meaning Be

by Debra Holland

Debra Holland, a psychotherapist and specialist in grief counseling, shares her indispensable knowledge in The Essential Guide to Grief and Grieving, tackling the difficult questions about how men and women, young and old, cope with loss. This accessible, inspiring, and insightful guide helps readers understand the various kinds and levels of grief, how people are trained to experience grief, the theories concerning the stages in the journey of grief, and ways to get through the pain and achieve some level of comfort.

- Includes solid concrete advice to help the healing process.

- Features dozens of real-life stories.

- Helpful for those who counsel the grieving as well as those who've experienced loss.

Genres: Nonfiction

333 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2011

About the author

USA Today Bestselling author Debra Holland is a three-time Romance Writers of America Golden Heart finalist and one time winner. She’s the author of the award winning Montana Sky Series, sweet, historical Western romance. Book Two, Starry Montana Sky, was selected by Amazon as one of 50 Greatest Love Stories. Debra is also the author of The Gods’ Dream Trilogy, fantasy romance. Painted Montana Sky Christmas is her latest book.

Debra has written a nonfiction book, The Essential Guide to Grief and Grieving from Alpha Books (a subsidiary of Penguin). She has a free ebooklet available on her website, http://drdebraholland.com: 58 Tips for Getting What You Want From a Difficult Conversation.

Reviews

[Jo Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very comprehensive.

[Darlene · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book really helped me to understand that all my feelings and everything that I have been going through since the loss of my daughter is normal. Debra explains in this book that there is no time limit on grief and grieving, every person deals with it differently. There are also lots of great advice on how to heal and move on with life. It not only covers deaths but it goes over different types of grieving that people go through, job loss, divorce, aging, lost friendships and more things that I never realized people grieved over. It is a very enlightening and helpful book for anyone that suffers any kind of loss.

[Lianne (Old Lady Podcast) · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a very BASIC overview to grieving, and frankly not very helpful. The book reiterates in every chapter that #1) grief is different for everyone #2) feel your feelings #3) you don't know how long it will last #4) take care of yourself.

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book I will continue to refer to.