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    Good Grief 50th Ann Ed
    Good Grief 50th Ann Ed
    Good Grief 50th Ann Ed
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    Good Grief 50th Ann Ed

    By Granger E. Westberg

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    For fifty years Good Grief has helped millions of readers find comfort and rediscover hope after loss. Today this classic text continues to offer helpful insights on the emotional and physical responses persons may experience during the natural process of grieving. Good Grief identifies ten stages of grief—shock, emotion, de
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFortress Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2010
    ISBN9781451409024
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    • 4/5
      This little book has helped a lot of people!
    • 1/5
      Good Grief identifies ten stages of grief--shock, emotion, depression, physical distress, panic, guilt, anger, resistance, hope, and acceptance yet provides no rationale or fixed referent point for the relief of grief.
    • 1/5
      Thankfully short, this book on the stages of grieving was highly recommended in a book we're reading on how to be an effective deacon. Unfortunately, this book could have been written by a post-modern. I'm not saying that Westberg is post-modern, but he quotes very little scripture, makes most of his points from anecdotes or psychology, and quotes only one person associated with religion, a rabbi.I think that a book on grieving from a Biblical perspective would be helpful. This is not it.
    • 4/5
      Rated: BGood book to help people who are grieving a loss understand what is normal during abnormal times.
    • 4/5
      It’s not often that a 64 page book with large print is reissued over and over again as a “classic”. In this feature-article length book, Westberg gives a quick apologetic about the need to grieve followed by descriptions of the 10 different stages a grieving person may go through. He wisely notes that not every one goes through every stage, and they don’t always flow in order.The role of the believer is not to short-circuit the grieving process, but to help the person through the stages.I particularly appreciated his realism at the start of the final chapter: "Please note that we do not say that the final stage is, 'We become our old selves again.' When we go through any significant grief experience we come out of it as different people. Depending upon the way we respond to this event we are either stronger people than we were before or weaker—either healthier in spirit or sicker."

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    Preface

    I am deeply grateful that so many of you have found this little book helpful in your experience of grief.

    I have learned during these many years that the various forms of loss that come our way need not be entirely damaging; they can, to some degree at least, also be life-enhancing. Suffering is not good, but you need not be devastated by it. Ultimately we can be healed of our bitterness and move ahead.

    And so what can be the result of reading this book of good grieving?

    •    We come out of our grief experience at a slightly higher level of maturity than before.

    •    We come out of our grief as deeper persons because we have been down in the depths of despair and know what it is like.

    •    We come out of it stronger, for we have had to learn how to use our spiritual muscles to climb the rugged mountain trails.

    •    We come out of it better able to help others. We have walked through the valley of the shadow of grief. We can understand.

    That is why I have chosen to call this little book Good Grief.

    Granger E. Westberg

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    Introduction

    We spend a good portion of our lives working diligently to acquire those things that make life rich and meaningful—friends, a wife or husband, children, a home, a job, material comforts, money (let’s face it), and security. What happens to us when we lose any of these persons or things that are so important to us?

    Quite naturally we grieve over the loss of anything important. Sometimes, if the loss is great, the very foundations of our life are shaken, and we are thrown into deep despair. Because we know so little about the nature of grief, we become panicky when it strikes us, and this serves to throw us deeper into despondency. What can we learn about the grief process so that we can better cope with

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