Grief can be your best friend, or your worst enemy.
Whether we are grieving for a loved one or for a time in our lives that has passed, each loss we face brings with it an element of change.
Our abilities to step out of the old and adjust to the new can often be held back by our fear of these changes, preventing us from defining a new, positive pathway.
Whatever your loss, and however you are adjusting to it, this book can help you move forward into a state of acceptance.
Whether you keep it by your bedside, in your desk, or tucked into a bag, Good Grief is the little voice telling you that you can do it, and that you are not alone.
Unfortunately, this book just didn't work for me, but I guess it could work for others. There is a lot of visualisation. Although the metaphors are useful, the concept of visualising to get passed the grief is something that just doesn't work for me.
She had some interesting thoughts on the different types of grief and change, but I don't think that this book could be used as a guide. It is an easy read, without any complex terminology, but I have generally come out of reading the book, the same as I went in.
Tait had a useful yes/no concept to manage unwanted thoughts, which would probably be the only thing I would take from this book. This wasn't directly linked to the topic of grief either, more to negative or unwanted thoughts or anxiety.
This book had a few useful concepts, but overall just wasn't what I expected.