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My Grief Handbook: Why Grief Hurts and How to Cope

by Beck Ferrari

A guide to understanding grief

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A guide to understanding grief

Beck Ferrari’s handbook presents frameworks for making sense of grief after someone dies, while recognizing that each person’s experience is shaped by their particular relationship, memories, and concerns. Research-based explanations are paired with first-hand accounts to illustrate how those ideas can relate to real experiences. The book is organized around understanding one’s own responses to loss and finding ways to cope while moving forward; it is a guide, not a single person’s bereavement story.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults seeking guidance on grief after a death
  • Readers who want frameworks for understanding grief alongside first-hand experiences
  • Those looking for a resource focused on coping with loss and moving forward

Themes

Grief and bereavementPersonal responses to lossCoping and adjustmentMemory and relationships

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Book overview

Grief can be complicated and painful. Our memories, relationships, good times and worries are unique, and these all affect how we experience a loss. No two people will experience grief in the same way because all of our relationships are specific to us.

But there are frameworks for understanding our reactions when someone dies. Lots of people have found it helpful to understand these frameworks, as knowing what's going on with grief can help us find ways to cope with the loss, let go of some of the pain, and find ways to still have a good future.

Based on years of research, this book includes some first-hand experiences from people who have been through grief, to show how the ideas could work in real life. However, this is not another person's story. It is a guide to understanding your own.

By getting to know how we are processing grief, we can start getting on with it - working alongside it and moving forward.

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