Can anyone recommend a book about loss and grieving that is not religious?
Can anyone recommend a book about loss and grieving that is not religious?
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Can anyone recommend a book about loss and grieving that is not religious?
Paula by isabel allende
Most of All You by Mia Sheridan
Joan Didion-The Year of Magical Thinking
That was a very good book
Fiction or non-fiction?
Like help with dealing with loss and grieving….sorry. I should have been more specific. I’ve been looking but most are religious based.
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Say her name by Francisco Goldman
A monster calls
A monster calls by patrick ness
Sometimes fiction is helpful as well, but there are many books (if you link “psychology” when you search, you’re less likely to find religious texts). I found meditation books helpful when I was dealing with loss as well. (Though some find that’s too close to religion/spirituality as well)
My friend Cathy Rentzenbrink’s book A Manual For Heartache is fantastic and helped me a great deal x
The death of Ivan Ilyich, from Tolstoy…its fiction, but its helpful.
A walk to remember or The Last Song
Tuesdays with Morrie or anything by Elizabeth Kubler Ross.
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The classic, Elizabeth Kubler Ross, On Death and Dying.
Four Funerals and A Wedding. I can’t think of the author’s name at the moment.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
A walt to remmber by Neckola Sparks
Me before you,
And the sequel: After you
This is a good option , No pun intended Option B
The Raven – but it won’t cheer you up… Try some Chicken Soup For The Soul hope you feel better soon ❤️
Interstingly the Harry Potter series are actually based on grief and loss as J.K. Rowling was going through quite a bit while writing them
And NO it is not religious, and try “The power of now” too.
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Kubler-Ross and Kessler is one book. Or maybe The Sun Still Rises: Surviving and Thriving after Grief and Loss by Shawn Doyle.
2nd the vote on “On Grief and Grieving by Kubler -Ross.
It helped me thru a very difficult time in my life.
Necessary Losses by Judith Viost….
The book of Henry
Anton Mallick Wants to Be Happy.
How to Survive the Loss of a Love