Reflections of a Grieving Spouse: The Unexpected Journey from Loss to Renewed Hope

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I read a chapter a night and then used the workbook style questions to flesh out my feeling. I just finished it last week and intend to reread it. I also bought another book on grieving that I feel will help me where I am at emotionally at the present time. I like it's structure and topics. It has longer chapters but is still a short read for one chapter a day or however you can make it fit you. It's title is Healing the Heartbreak of Grief by Peter James Flamming. I found out I was grieving on multiple issues. Having to get out of my lifetime occupation because of my wife's health and eventual death, My mother-in-laws developing Dementia and me as her primary care giver and now my mother having hip replacement and now an infection in her hip. I am a person who doesn't open up to people about my inner most feelings and I now see I need to seek help. People think I am handling it well and I think I am but I also need someone on the outside looking in objectively.

This book was very comforting to me at the worst time in my life. My fiance John passed 3 months b4 we'd planned to elope.I was devastated. Lost my love, my home, my car and my job. Then I got sick.This book is my go to when I need reassurance and faith.I have purchased copies for friends who've lost spouses/partners in hopes it would be comforting for them too.I highly reccomend this book.

My wife passed away from Cancer just after Christmas and our Pastor recommended this book. My wife was amazing...she was my world. I’m an analytical person not in to drama and feelings....but, the emotions were overwhelming. Just to know from his perspective that everything that I was going through was a normal process gave me comfort and meaning.I highly recommend this book and suggest that you don’t read it all in one day..like I almost did. I spaced it out over 3 weeks and it must have been God telling me to do that because it all seemed to coincide with the waves of emotions...letting me know “this is normal...you’ll be OK”.Thanks to the Author for writing the book listening to the Lord leading you to.

My mom gave me this book when my husband moved to heaven. It was very helpful. He put things i was feeling into words that I didn't know how to express... and gave me insight into what was to come..Certain things to watch for, feelings, firsts, etc.I have since bought more to give out as friends spouse's have died... they also have found it helpful. I even gave one to my dad when my mom, who gave it to me, moved to heaven. He also said it was very helpful.

Related to exactly what i was going through

The process of healing from grief is very personal and difficult. Helps people realize the process they are going through is normal...or as normal a losing one's spouse can be. Excellent.

it was healing to read this. especially since Norm is a "grief expert" and experienced with grief himself before his wife died. it gives me permission to give myself grace in my own handling of grief since I lost my beloved wife. nobody grieves "perfectly". I've gotten this as gifts for others in my GriefShare group. Norm is a blessing to a bereaved husband.

Death is not the only way to lose loved ones. But however you lose them, grieving is part of the experience. Personally, I don't like feelings of grief - so for many, many years I have shoved them out of my life. Now they are sneaking up and letting me know they are still inside. This little book has made it possible for me to start the journey through my postponed griefs. The short, pithy chapters simply define one step of the journey at a time. The few questions at the end of each chapter offer a jump-start for individual pondering and application of the chapter's one main concept. It is built so that individuals can pick and choose according to their own needs. I think it is an amazing book - adaptable for anybody who has experienced a serious loss. I have been recommending it to my family, friends, and associates as a 'workbook' for dealing with grief.