Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving: How to Care For and Support the Grieving Heart

Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving: How to Care For and Support the Grieving Heart

by Gary Roe
Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving: How to Care For and Support the Grieving Heart

Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving: How to Care For and Support the Grieving Heart

by Gary Roe

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Overview

Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving is a Best Book Awards Finalist



"After my wife died, I wish I'd had copies of this book to pass on to my friends. They meant well; that didn't make them helpful. Many will benefit from this easy-to-read book." -Cecil Murphey, New York Times bestselling author of more than 130 books



Loss hurts. It's tough to go through, and painful to watch.

Do you know someone who's grieving and wish you could help?



Are you the one grieving and wonder if what you're going through is normal? Do you wish those around you understood you better?



This book has answers.

This practical and easy-to-read book provides the answers you need to make a difference - in your own life and in the lives of others.

Multiple award-winning author, speaker, and grief specialist Gary Roe is a compassionate and trusted voice in grief recovery who has been bringing comfort, hope, encouragement, and healing to hurting, wounded hearts for more than 30 years. In Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving, he gives you a look at the grieving heart and its struggles - the churning thoughts, emotional pain, guilt, sadness, loneliness, and even depression within.

If you're wanting to help someone who's grieving, you'll get a glimpse of what's going on inside them and be better able to love and support them. If you're in the midst of loss, you'll see yourself as you read, and be encouraged that you aren't as weird as you thought.

In Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving, you will learn...


  • How hurting, grieving people are thinking and feeling.
  • How to be aware of their emotional pain, enter their world, and meet them where they are.
  • How to discover what they need and don't need.
  • What to say and not to say.
  • How to be a help and not a hindrance in the grief recovery process.
  • How the grief and pain of others can affect you.
  • How your own personal history of loss influences both how you grieve and how you view others who are hurting.
  • How helping others stimulates your own personal growth and healing.
  • How these skills can enhance all your relationships.


Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving can help you develop a priceless ability- how to hear the heart of someone who's hurting. The benefits for them, and for you, can be staggering.

We're designed for connection and relationship. Death and the resulting separation are painful. We love, and so we grieve. How we grieve matters - deeply.



Psychology, counseling, diet, fitness, and physical and mental health all play crucial roles. Each one of us can make a difference. We're in this together. Together, we can recover, heal, and grow.



Hurting, grieving hearts are everywhere. They need you.



Grab your copy of Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving today. You can make more of a difference than you dreamed possible.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781950382026
Publisher: Gary Roe
Publication date: 02/08/2019
Series: Good Grief Series , #3
Pages: 114
Sales rank: 384,955
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

Multiple award-winning author, speaker, and grief specialist Gary Roe is a compassionate and trusted voice in grief recovery who has been bringing comfort, hope, encouragement, and healing to hurting, wounded hearts for more than 30 years.

The author of numerous books, Gary has been featured by Focus on the Family, Dr. Laura, Beliefnet, the Christian Broadcasting Network, Wellness.com, ThriveGlobal, Charisma, Hospice Times, Hitched, The Parenting Bookmark, and other major media and has well over 600 grief-related articles in print. Recipient of the Diane Duncam Award for Excellence in Hospice Care,

Gary is a popular keynote, conference, and seminar speaker at a wide variety of venues. A former college minister, missionary in Japan, entrepreneur in Hawaii, and pastor in Texas and Washington, he now serves as a writer, speaker, and grief counselor.

Gary loves being a husband and father. He has seven adopted children, including three daughters from Colombia. He enjoys hockey, corny jokes, good puns, and colorful Hawaiian shirts. Gary and his wife Jen and family live in Texas.

Visit Gary at garyroe.com.

Table of Contents

Praise for Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving

Other books by Gary Roe

Acknowledgments

Opening Remarks: What You Will Learn From This Book

Chapter One: Show Up and Enter Their World

Chapter Two: Respect Their Pain

Chapter Three: Accept Their Emotions

Chapter Four: Grow with Them as They Change

Chapter Five: Share Their Loneliness

Chapter Six: Be a Safe Person

Chapter Seven: Connect Them with Others Who Know Grief

Chapter Eight: Let Their Grief Help You Heal and Grow

Chapter Nine: Be Patient with Yourself and Them

Conclusion: What Helps In Grief Often Helps In Life

Final Thoughts And Suggestions

Resources For The Grieving Heart

Online Resources

A Request from the Author

About The Author

An Urgent Plea

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