You can try to go, run, and hide from it, but at some point, in your life, many points, in fact, you are bound to experience grief. Triggered most often than not by the loss of a loved one, grief is a devastatingly powerful emotion.
First you cannot believe what has happened, then you rage against it. Next comes the suffering because there’s nothing that can be done about it. And finally, you accept what happened and moves on.
Not only it is a painful process, but it is one that many people find incredibly difficult to go through. Some are not even capable of moving on for years.
Learning how to properly process grief is a skill that sadly many are lacking these days. Don’t let yourself be one of them, learn how to properly deal with grief by reading these books.
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#1 I Will Always Love You by Melissa Lyons

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#2 Until We Meet Again by Melissa Lyons

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#3 Back to Happy by Connie Bowman

In addition, she hosts a podcast, Happy Healthy You! about living a whole life in mind, body and spirit, and a new course on Insight Timer, the meditation app, called The Process of Sacred Grieving. She provides guided meditations, suggested yoga poses and practical strategies for navigating grief and loss.
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#4 I’m One of The Lucky Ones By Joseph Alvaro

When his wife passed away, the author turned his attention to raising three teenage children. While discussing with a friend, who had also lost his wife, the process of grief and mourning, they realized that there was not a venue for people to express themselves about those who had died.
Thus was conceived The Lucky Ones, a streaming content platform where people from all walks of life can celebrate that special someone. Through the telling of wonderfully sweet stories filled with love, humor and remembrances, The Lucky Ones brings to life those we’ve lost in five minute video exposés creating a biographical profile of the special bond shared between two people.
I’m One of The Lucky Ones shares the author’s experience of losing his wife and how he answered the question by friends and acquaintances, “How do you do it?” His insight is compelling and provides a unique perspective to what he believes is the last chapter in the healing process; celebrating the lives of those we have lost and the love they gave us. It is a gift we shouldn’t be afraid to share with others.
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#5 Bearing Witness: One Mother’s Online Journey of Grief After Suicide

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#6 How I Learned To Smile From The Inside by Seth E Santoro

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#7 GRIEF: When Will this Pain Ever End?

GRIEF: When Will This Pain Ever End, provides cutting edge energy psychology tools and processes that help to relieve the pain and agony of grief. The book addresses the physiological aspects of grief that cause us to feel numb and helpless and offers effective methods to shift the blocked energy so that healing can begin.
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#8 The Secret Life of Grief: A Memoir by Tanja Pajevic

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#9 Being Mortal, by Dr. Atul Gawande

Dr. Gawande speaks from the ‘civilian’ side of the fence, and I think that’s why his book has reached so many people.
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#10 When Breath Becomes Air, by Dr. Paul Kalanithi

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#11 Letters to the Dead Men – Unexpected Revelations

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“Properly process grief” “overcome grief” – ridiculous phrases in the face of actual grief . In reality, the only way to endure grief is to feel it and keep breathing. You don’t get over it, you injest it. You can’t control it, you become changed. There is no propriety in grief. Its lonely and ugly and sacred and important. Don’t perpetuate the myth that grief is abnormal.
Using phrases like “overcome grief” is so unhelpful. Grief is not an illness it is a state of being. Please think about your phraseology!