Emotional Healing After Loss

No one leads a life so charmed that they do not sometimes experience grief and loss, depression or sadness.

It may be the loss of a loved one or a love, the death of a friendship or a friend, a divorce or a separation in distance, but whatever it is we grieve for what we had or wished to have.

When we grieve we don't want a whole lot to read; we want something which speaks to our heart.

Reading this book is like reading a newspaper. Left hand pages are headlined so you can go straight to what pulls you; right hand pages contain a poem or saying which amplifies the meaning on the facing page.

Reading How to Survive the Loss of a Love is like reading something which has been extremely simplified, like a telegram.

The pages cut to the chase without omitting anything important. Because the book has only a little bit of text on each page, it does not burden the mind.

There are very, very few books which nearly everyone loves or finds helpful. This is one of them. Read a few pages at a time, letting what applies to you soak in and give you comfort.

If what you are grieving for involves a breakup or divorce, Wayne & Tamara recommend reading Rebuilding by Bruce Fisher and Robert Alberti.

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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8