Books in the Good Grief series

For more than fifty years, Good Grief has helped millions of readers find comfort and rediscover hope after loss. Exploring ten stages of grief and recognizing that grief is complex and deeply personal, we learn there is no "right" way to grieve. For anyone grieving a death or other loss, this hardcover edition makes a heartfelt gift.

Good Grief has helped millions find comfort and rediscover hope after loss for more than fifty years. For those grieving the death of a loved one or other life transition, this bestseller is a proven companion. Within the pages, you will learn the ten stages of grief and find support. This large-print edition allows greater accessibility.

BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARD FINALIST "A powerful, life-changing resource."- Athena Dean-Holt, Radio Personality and Publisher, Redemption Press Holidays can hurt. Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, anniversaries, Memorial Day, etc. These times surface our losses like nothing else. We're keenly aware of who's missing. We bump into a memory with every step. How do we do this? Multiple award-winning author, speaker, and grief specialist Gary Roe is a compassionate and trusted voice in grief recovery who has been bringing comfort, hope, encouragement, and healing to wounded hearts for more than 30 years. Surviving the Holidays Without You has helped thousands of grievers not only maintain their sanity, but turn days that they once dreaded into positive, healing times. Written with heartfelt compassion, this easy-to-read, practical book has been dubbed by many as a "Holiday Survival Kit." In Surviving the Holidays Without You, you will learn... Why holiday grief, Christmas grief, and special day sadness are so challenging. How to deal with unspoken, yet powerful expectations. How to handle grief triggers, emotional bursts, and roller coaster emotions. How to face feeling emotional, lonely, misunderstood, and overwhelmed. How to make good choices about what to do, how, and with whom. How to make a simple, proactive plan to honor the one you're missing and use holidays to grieve well. How to better take care of yourself - your physical and mental health, diet, fitness, and spirituality. How to use grief and special days for good by serving others and loving those around you. We all face loss and death. How we grieve matters. Family, relationships, religion, faith, counseling, psychology, and therapy all play a part in recovery, healing, and personal growth. If we can find ways to make emotional pain count and use grief for good, the ripple effects could be extraordinary - in our own lives and in the lives of others. Coping with loss is hard enough. Holidays can make life seem impossible. Surviving the Holidays Without You will reassure you that you're not alone, you're not crazy, and that you will make it through these times. Holidays will be different now, but they can still be good. Let Gary show you how. Grab your copy of Surviving the Holidays Without You today.

Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving is a Best Book Awards Finalist"After my wife died, I wish I'd had copies of this book to pass on to my friends. They meant well; that didn't make them helpful. Many will benefit from this easy-to-read book." -Cecil Murphey, New York Times bestselling author of more than 130 booksLoss hurts. It's tough to go through, and painful to watch.Do you know someone who's grieving and wish you could help?Are you the one grieving and wonder if what you're going through is normal? Do you wish those around you understood you better?This book has answers.This practical and easy-to-read book provides the answers you need to make a difference - in your own life and in the lives of others.Multiple award-winning author, speaker, and grief specialist Gary Roe is a compassionate and trusted voice in grief recovery who has been bringing comfort, hope, encouragement, and healing to hurting, wounded hearts for more than 30 years. In Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving, he gives you a look at the grieving heart and its struggles - the churning thoughts, emotional pain, guilt, sadness, loneliness, and even depression within. If you're wanting to help someone who's grieving, you'll get a glimpse of what's going on inside them and be better able to love and support them. If you're in the midst of loss, you'll see yourself as you read, and be encouraged that you aren't as weird as you thought.In Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving, you will learn... How hurting, grieving people are thinking and feeling. How to be aware of their emotional pain, enter their world, and meet them where they are. How to discover what they need and don't need. What to say and not to say. How to be a help and not a hindrance in the grief recovery process. How the grief and pain of others can affect you. How your own personal history of loss influences both how you grieve and how you view others who are hurting. How helping others stimulates your own personal growth and healing. How these skills can enhance all your relationships.Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving can help you develop a priceless ability- how to hear the heart of someone who's hurting. The benefits for them, and for you, can be staggering.We're designed for connection and relationship. Death and the resulting separation are painful. We love, and so we grieve. How we grieve matters - deeply.Psychology, counseling, diet, fitness, and physical and mental health all play crucial roles. Each one of us can make a difference. We're in this together. Together, we can recover, heal, and grow. Hurting, grieving hearts are everywhere. They need you. Grab your copy of Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving today. You can make more of a difference than you dreamed possible.

Winner, 2018 Book Excellence Award "An invaluable resource for parents, teachers, coaches, ministers, and anyone who has a teenager they love and want to help." - Glen Lord, President, Board of Directors, The Compassionate FriendsTeens are hurting. While trying to make sense of an increasingly confusing and troubled world, teens get hit, again and again, with moves, separations, divorces, rejections, substance abuse, domestic violence, sexual abuse, illness, disability, and death. Add teen suicide and school shootings into the mix, and young lives and hearts seem to be more at stake than ever before. Edgy, fun-loving, tech-driven, and seemingly indestructible, their souls are shaking. Gnawing questions surface from deep inside: "How did this happen? Why me? Is this my fault? What am I supposed to do? Who's next? Am I going to make it?" Teen hearts are at risk. Each one is a priceless treasure. We can't afford to allow pain and loss to get the better of them. What can we do?Multiple award-winning author, speaker, and grief specialist Gary Roe is a compassionate and trusted voice in grief recovery who has been bringing comfort, hope, encouragement, and healing to hurting, wounded hearts for many years. He wrote Teen Grief at the request of parents, teachers, coaches, and school counselors. Born of personal experience and more than three decades of interacting with grieving teens, this informative, practical handbook is replete with guidance, insight, and ideas for helping teens navigate the turbulent waters of loss. Though Teen Grief primarily focuses on losses due to death, the principles discussed can be applied to any loss a teen might be experiencing. In Teen Grief, you will learn... How large an issue teen grief is and how deep their pain goes. How the teen hearts tend to see and interpret loss, and how they attempt to manage it. How you can come alongside teens and help them deal with shock, denial, sadness, and anger. How you can support teens as they navigate anxiety, fear, guilt, and depression. How you can walk with teens in their loneliness, confusion, and skepticism about life and the future. How you can be a safe person who cultivates hope in teen hearts. How you (parent, grandparent, teacher, coach, school counselor, administrator, social worker, clergy, youth pastor, mentor, youth advocate, etc.) can use your specific role to have a positive and healing impact in teens' lives. Teen Grief also includes hints for group discussion so that this resource can also be used by school staff, across entire school districts, and in churches. Together, we can make a massive difference - one teen at a time. Parenting, education, teaching, coaching, quality relationships, personal health, diet, fitness, counseling, psychology, and therapy can all play a positive role in teen lives. If we can help them discover how to turn losses into gains and transform hardship into something productive, positive, and good, the ripple effects could be extraordinary. As they heal and grow, they can become the difference-makers this world so desperately needs. Teens are the future. They need you. It's time to help them heal. Discover what you can do. Scroll up and grab your copy of Teen Grief today.

Best Book Awards Finalist and National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist"Roe nicely describes the emotions surviving spouses feel." - Cecil Murphey, widower, NY Times Bestselling author of more than 130 booksHe was your love. She was your partner. Now your heart is broken. What do you do with all the pain, confusion, and anger? What will life be like? Who are you now? Your heart needs answers. Heartbroken can help. Award-winning author, speaker, grief counselor and bereavement specialist Gary Roe is a compassionate and trusted voice in grief recovery who has been bringing comfort, hope, encouragement, and healing to hurting, wounded hearts for more than 30 years. He has walked with hundreds of widows and widowers through this painful valley. From their stories he has composed this incredibly practical work that will touch your heart and comfort your soul. In Heartbroken - this deeply personal, easy-to-read book - you will learn how to... Process grief's overwhelming, roller-coaster emotions (sadness, anger, confusion, anxiety, fear, guilt, depression). Manage life's new upheavals and stresses, including physical symptoms and illness. Survive feeling misunderstood, alone, and even rejected. Deal with all the different relationship shifts (family, friends, church, social groups) that occur with this loss. Take care of yourself - health, fitness, nutrition, expectations, and commitments. Think about and face the future with hope, including birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays. Recover, heal, grow, and live again. As you read, you will discover three important truths: You're far from alone, You're not crazy, You will make it through this."Heartbroken had what I needed to hear delivered in a kind and upbeat tone." - Kelli"Heartbroken touched on every emotion I experienced since the death of my husband." - Leslie"Heartbroken connected with my heart. I needed that. Badly." - Sam"Concise, well-organized, easy-to-read." - Eleanor"I was stunned. Heartbroken was my survival kit." - SteveWhether sudden or anticipated, the death of a husband or wife is traumatic. Recovery and healing are challenging. Take your grief seriously. Be kind to yourself. Scroll up and grab your copy of Heartbroken today.

2018 Best Book Award Winner"Compassionate. Comforting. Readers will see themselves on every page." - Paul Casale, Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage & Family TherapistLoss is painful. Separation hurts. We need comfort.Oblivious to our suffering, the world around us speeds on as if nothing happened. Stunned, shocked, sad, confused, and angry, we blink in disbelief. The pain can be immense. We look for comfort. We long for it. Grieving hearts need it to survive. Multiple award-winning author, hospice chaplain, and grief counselor Gary Roe has become a trusted voice to many hurting, grieving hearts. Written with heartfelt compassion, this easy-to-read, warm, and practical book reads like a caring conversation with a friend and is destined to become a classic for those looking for hope and encouragement in times of loss. Whether you've lost a spouse, child, parent, sibling, relative, or friend, Gary's desire is to meet you in your grief and walk with you there. Composed of brief chapters, Comfort for Grieving Hearts is designed to be read one chapter per day, giving you bite-sized bits of comfort, encouragement, and healing over a period of time. You do not have to read it this way, of course. We all grieve differently. Read in the way that is most natural for you.In Comfort for Grieving Hearts, you will find peace and comfort in... Processing complicated grief emotions (sadness, anger, guilt, confusion, guilt, anxiety, depression, feeling overwhelmed, etc). Navigating feeling alone, misunderstood, and even rejected by those around you. Handling the increased stress and uncertainty that heavy loss can bring. Dealing with physical and mental health issues, illnesses, and new symptoms that often arise. Taking care of yourself through diet, hydration, fitness, and rest. Thinking through the challenging spiritual and faith questions that frequently surface. Relating well to the people around you - those who are helpful and those who aren't. Overcoming the tendency to run from emotional pain with unhealthy habits or compulsive behaviors. Finding the support you need for survival, recovery, and healing (safe people, fellow grievers, counseling, etc.). Developing a simple, realistic plan for birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays. Using your grief for good - for yourself, your family, and others. Allowing this loss to give you greater perspective and motivate you to live more effectively than ever before. Making your life count, one day, one moment at a time.Please don't grieve alone. Let Comfort for Grieving Hearts join you on this arduous, tasking journey. Be kind to yourself. Take your heart seriously.Death has invaded, but it doesn't have to win. Read on. Comfort awaits you in these pages of this book.