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BEST books on dealing with grief (for patients and their families)

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Too many people are dealing with the loss of their loved ones and for some of them coping with grief and healing can be a challenge.

The grief that people are struggling with can also be in the form of the “loss” of what we have come to think of as normalcy.  Many are dealing with the separation from loved ones, divorce, financial loss, and so on.

For persons struggling with grief of different kinds, in addition to receiving individual and/or group psychotherapy, are there any books that may also help? Two specific books were recommended to us as being excellent.


I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One (A Compassionate Grief Recovery Book)

I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One

By Brook Noel and Pamela D. Blair PhD

Listen on Audible here.

Read on Kindle here.

(Reviewed by Rajnish Mago, MD)


The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses – Reclaim Your Happiness and Life

The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses – Reclaim Your Happiness and Life

By John W. James and Russell Friedman

Listen on Audible here.

Read on Kindle here.

(Reviewed by Rajnish Mago, MD)


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