A Time to Grieve: Meditations for Healing After the Death of a Loved One

by Carol Staudacher

Overview

A collection of comforting thoughts and meditations—including the authentic voices of survivors—for anyone grieving the loss of a loved one.

The death of a loved one is for most of us, the most profound and challenging experience of our lives. This book accompanies you through this difficult period, and is written to connect with you wherever you are in your grieving process. As you read, may you gather hope, find the courage to express your thoughts and feelings, and eventually make the difficult but rewarding journey from coping to healing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062120632
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	11/21/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	258
Sales rank:	365,098
File size:	442 KB

About the Author

Carol Staudacher is a grief consultant, lecturer, and author of Beyond Grief and Men and Grief.

Read an Excerpt

I need to keep my mind clear and just think this through.

All great discoveries are made by [people]
whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
--C. H. Parkhurst

Some survivors try to think their way through grief. That doesn't work. Grief is a releasing process, a discovery process, a healing process. We cannot release or discover or heal by the use of our minds alone. The brain must follow the heart at a respectful distance. It is our hearts that ache when a 'loved one dies. it is our emotions that are most drastically affected. Certainly the mind suffers, the mind recalls, the mind may plot and plan and wish, but it is the heart that will blaze the trail through the thicket of grief.

Grief is a discovery process. I will open myself to the discoveries my heart and head will make. Grief is a healing journey, and I will trust my heart to lead my head in this journey.