Healing Grief: Walking with Your Friend Through Loss

Healing Grief: Walking with Your Friend Through Loss

Healing Grief: Walking with Your Friend Through Loss

Healing Grief: Walking with Your Friend Through Loss

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Sara Wengerd had years of experience with death via her work as a hospice nurse and caring for the elderly. Then it happened to her. Beginning with her husband’s accident, through the first day, the funeral, and the next two years, Wengerd illuminates the grieving process with heartfelt and surprising candor.

Many of us feel awkward and hesitant when talking to a recently bereaved person. We don’t want to say the wrong thing. A Healing Grief is an antidote to this problem. At the end of each chapter is a list of practical advice and tangible suggestions for action that friends and family can do to comfort and show love to the bereaved.

Makes the perfect gift for both those who are grieving and those who are offering support and comfort.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780836191981
Publisher: MennoMedia
Publication date: 04/05/2002
Pages: 75
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 7.12(h) x 0.19(d)

About the Author

Sara Wengerd is a registered nurse and has worked in obstetrics, geriatrics, hopsice, and psychiatry. In 2001 she an assignment with Mennonite Central Committee, working with those bereaved by the civil war in Northern Ireland. Her book of interviews from those three years in Belfast, Crossings: Long-term Perspectives of the Troubles, was recently published. Wengerd lives in Goshen, Indiana, and is the mother of two adult daughters. She is a member of the Goshen College Mennonite Church.

Table of Contents

Foreword9
Preface11
1.The First Day15
2.The Second Day23
3.The Visitation31
4.The Funeral35
5.Changes39
6.The Second Year49
7.Adjustment57
Epilogue63
Resources65
About the Author71

What People are Saying About This

Endorsement

"What a moving story! Having experienced a similar loss, I found myself saying 'yes' throughout. I gladly commend the book—both to those who mourn and to those who seek to comfort them. This small volume will be an excellent resource for pastors to put into the hands of caregivers." —James M. Lapp, Franconia Conference Minister

"In A Healing Grief, Wengerd takes us with her on the journey, turning shock into reality, denial into belief, anger into understanding, and despair to hope. We learn who and what helped her along the way, providing a perfect balance of personal and practical help."

--Marta Felber, author of Finding Your Way After Your Spouse Dies

"This is one of the helpful books I have seen on grieving and helping someone through loss. . . . A book everyone should read, now to help someone, and later when going through a loss themselves."

--Quaker Life

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