Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief

Each day contains a quote or a thought or a bit of poetry regarding griefer loss that is then explained in context. There's a small meditation at the end of each day as well. This book is a lovely and gentle way of learning to move forward in your life while grieving.

Reading the daily meditation provides a healing dose of perspective. It gives me space to pause and reflect on this journey. I begin with it every morning. After a few days in, I bought copies of the book for my siblings and friend who are all experiencing familial loss.

Truly an excellent book for anyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one. Author has gone through her own painful loss and shares a compassionate view on how we each need to grieve and process loss in our own, individual ways--no one size fits all here. Presented as daily devotionals that are very helpful in healing from loss a day at a time. I also really liked how the author drew quotes from a diverse selection of writers, thinkers, philosophers, and scriptures. Someone gave this book to me after a painful loss and I have purchased it for many others going through their own journey from grief to healing.

This is one of the best devotional/loss books I’ve ever received. It was a gift after my son passed and I found it more helpful, down to Earth, real and thought-provoking than many devotionals.

Sent this to my neighbor who had just lost her husband n she hasn’t stopped thanking me for it !! Says it’s just wonderful has rally helped her get thur the hard times

Bought this for an older friend who lost her soulmate as a way to help her with the grieving process. A year later she’s getting though it and I think this book helped.

Unfortunately, I have bought this book too often probably about 20 times, In 2015, with the loss of my son Paul in a car accident, I was given this book with the inscription "my heart breaks for your heart" A copy had been given to her sister who held it dear. Now 11 years later, I still go to this book. Every time a friend or someone close loses a child or spouse, I give this book. I do wait a bit, I give it in person, I explain how to read it, and open the book to the page of the date, unplanned, and it always speaks to the moment. It's as though the book knows my pain and memories of the date I read it. I highly recommend this book to anyone who suffers a devastating loss of a loved one.

My favorite of all the grief (spouse) books that I’ve purchased

It is what is says it is - a guide for the grieving. With short but profound thoughts for each day. Highly recomended, beautifully written and very helpful.

I bought this book before I needed it, knowing that when I needed it, I probably wouldn’t be able to figure out how to help myself. My mom passed a few weeks ago. I didn’t pick up the book till a few weeks after but it really has made a difference. It’s not preachy at all. The meditations are gentle and helpful, and reflective of one’s everyday thoughts. The pages are marked with a date for everyday of the year, but I just started reading from the beginning, whatever I could get through on a day by day basis. Highly recommended for anyone having trouble dealing with the overwhelming grief from the loss of a loved one.

Bought for someone who had just lost their spouse it is proving to be a genuine source of inspiration and comfort. Very strongly recommended

It takes you each day through your own journey of life , it is as if the book is written for you

This is a classic book, that provides some solace and words express the loss over 365 days, and we can repeat as the healing is unending...but the printer, William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) shows no appreciation of reading a book - for every page one has to prise the book at the binder to read the words at the inner edges (do see the image). The printer has reduced a 5-Star content-book to a 2-star reading experience - a disgrace to the dignity of reading!!!