Grief Expressed: When a Mate Dies
Author: Marta Felber
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ISBN: 1577491246
Publisher: Fairview Pr (September, 2002)
Sales Rank: 287,991
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Pouring Your Personal Pain onto Paper
Like a child in its cradle
I would that very gentle arms
Might rock my grieving spirit
And be as it were a kindly shelter
For my heart - a traveler lost
On a remote deserted road. -Nguyen Vy
Writing your feelings in a journal can be healing and when you read your own words, you can watch the progress of your healing as you move from a place of darkness into the light again. When someone you love has passed on to the next life, you can feel disoriented and alone.
At that moment, you will feel that you need someone to talk to, someone who understands. In Marta Felbers first book: "Finding Your Way after Your Spouse Dies," she gently leads you through the grieving process. She starts by expressing her heartfelt sorrow for the reader's loss and then proceeds to speak from the heart in small easy-to-read chapters. She deals with the deepest feelings in a very gentle way.
In this second book you will find 64 written exercises that she completed for herself in the first year after she lost her own husband. She deals with a wide range of emotions and issues, such as loneliness, insecurity, friends, finance, sleeplessness, health and anniversaries. Marta started writing these feelings when her husband was dying and poured out her thoughts onto the paper of two journals.
She starts by explaining how lost she felt that there was nobody else at home. She didn't want to go home and made a list of things that would make her house seem less empty. On the opposite page there is a place for you to write your feelings and a similar list of your own ideas. This format continues throughout the book.
Some of her thoughts are so personal, you feel that she is inviting you into her world and sitting down with you over a cup of coffee, just pouring out her soul. I found both her books were very nurturing.
I would like to recommend both books as a gift to anyone in your life who has experienced a great loss. The exercises will help to pull all those feelings that are buried inside so the healing process can begin. The reader will move from a place of grief to a place of renewed self-identity and wholeness.
A warm treasure that will help when going through a period of great loss.
Encouraging.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Joan's Review
After losing my husband to Cancer last Feb., I went to the library to find some books on grieving and there were many.
Marta's book, "Grief Expressed" When a Mate Dies was by far
the most helpful to me. Marta seemed to feel exactly as I did after losing her husband. The workbook setting was extremely helpful and I am still using it a year later. Her ideas and ways of dealing with her grief enabled me to deal with mine. I was so impressed with this book that I purchased 5 more for when my friends will have to deal with sorrow.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Fellow Traveler
When I saw a write-up of this book in the newspaper I told my therapist about it and she ordered it for me. It was absolutely the best thing that we could have done. I lost my husband, the love of my life, very suddenly. Ms Felber's book spoke to me like nothing else. Her thoughts were mine; her feelings were mine. I can truthfully say that almost every word in this book relates to what I went through. It was as if the thoughts she expressed were coming from my mind. I can't begin to say how much it meant to have someone know exactly what I was going through and that I was not alone in my grief. I would heartily, heartily recommend this book to anyone who has lost their loved one. It's the best. Similar Products
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