Seven Choices: Finding Daylight After Loss Shatters Your World
Author: Elizabeth Harper Neeld
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ISBN: 0446690503
Publisher: Warner Books (01 August, 2003)
Sales Rank: 59,537
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
This Is the very best book to turn to in your grief
I am so happy I found this book. It was passed around to everyone in my grief support group.we only had 2 copies and at the time we tried to buy more we were told it was out of print.Everyone will be happy to hear they can buy there own copy now.I read every book I could get my hands on when my husband died.This book gave me the strength,hope & spirit to go on with my life
Rating: 5 out of 5
This book saved my life
I can honestly say that Seven Choices saved my life.
I began to dip into it when my husband died but soon found that it was my constant companion, providing solace, comfort and hope and I read it slowly and meticulously
as I passed through the long and painful grief process.
In despair it gave me comfort; it allowed me to cry and to understand my strange and seemingly irrational needs.
It taught me that I was not alone. it gave me courage to work through the long months of agony. It was always there - a friend to guide and steer me to the world beyond grief.
Eight years on - I still read it from time to time. Over the years I have personally bought ove 20 copies and always have "library copies" in my home to send to friends in need.
I read all the bereavement books I could find - this one was and still is the only one that gave me the will to continue life without my husband.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Provides a "road map" for coping with loss and rebuilding...
As a hospice social worker currently leading grief groups, I think this is one of the most valuable resource I have discovered....This book provides a thoughtful "map" to the experience of sudden loss as well as coping with loss of any type. Harper Neeld, from her own experiences of loss, offers a new conceptualization for visualizing loss (the impact) and how it affects the world and offers most importantly a concrete active process for facing grief or the transition of coming to terms with a loss.
Things I love about this book.
1) It is very well written. Harper Neeld is a college professor and writes in an engaging manner with broad use of other peoples' stories, literature and personal experience;
2) It is honest. She wrote the book over a 4 year period and chronicles her path of coping with her loss and her own coming to terms with it.
3). She utilizes most of the grief literatures as a foundation and incorporates key ideas appropriately throughout her book.
4) It is action oriented - Seven choices refers to her conception that as mourners face different facets of their grief/pain, they have different choices that lead to healing such as "to experience and express grief fully..." making choices until their have discovered what lyes beyond their grief.
This book offers a tremendous opportunity for comfort and support by someone who has been there. For professional staff, it offers a new twist on grief theory pulling from broad aspects of scholarly resources regarding grief.
The author also maintains a website www.elizabethharperneeld.com which has a monthly newsletter and informtion on her work which includes guides to writing and the writing process.
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