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    Good Grief: A Companion for Every Loss
    Good Grief: A Companion for Every Loss
    Good Grief: A Companion for Every Loss
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    Good Grief: A Companion for Every Loss

    By Granger E. Westberg

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    With more than three million copies in print, discover timeless wisdom for all who grieve the loss of a job, a friendship, a move, or a loved one.

    For more than fifty years Good Grief has helped millions of readers, including NFL players and a former first lady, find comfort, understand their emotions and regain hope after loss. This classic text identifies ten stages of grief -- shock, emotion, depression, physical distress, panic, guilt, anger, resistance, hope, and acceptance -- but recognizing that grief is complex and deeply personal, defines no "right" way to grieve.

    Good Grief offers valuable insights on the emotional and physical responses persons may experience during the natural process of grieving something as small as a change in plans to something as traumatic and final as death. Reflection questions sprinkled throughout the book help readers explore their own experience with each stage of the grieving process.

    Good Grief includes a foreword by Dr. Timothy Johnson, a leading communicator of medical health care information. An afterword by the author's daughters tells how the book came to be.

    Whether mourning the death of a loved one, the end of a marriage, moving to a new home, or other difficult life changes, Good Grief is a proven steady companion in times of loss and transition.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFortress Press
    Release dateFeb 1, 2019
    ISBN9781506454481
    Good Grief: A Companion for Every Loss

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      Good Grief - Granger E. Westberg

      2011

      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

      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 it?

      Does people’s faith have anything to do with the way they grieve over whatever it is they lose? For instance, when we lose a job, or lose a loving friend, or fail in school, or are disliked by the people at the office because of our unpopular convictions, does our grief at these times have anything to do with our faith?

      Faith plays a major role in grief of any kind. But not in the way some people think. They often seem to have the idea that a person with strong faith does not grieve and is above this sort of thing. Moreover, these people imply that religious faith advocates stoicism. They might even quote the two words from Scripture Grieve not! They forget to quote the rest of the phrase in which these two words are found: Grieve not as those who have no hope (1 Thessalonians

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