The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: the Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses Including Health, Career, and Faith
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The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: the Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses Including Health, Career, and Faith Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

John W. James (Author), Russell Friedman (Author), Derek Botten (Narrator),
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Updated to commemorate its 20th anniversary, this classic resource further explores the effects of grief and sheds new light on how to begin to take effective actions to complete the grieving process' and work towards recovery and happiness. Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories as well as from others', the authors illustrate how it is possible to recover from grief and regain energy and spontaneity.

Based on a proven program, The Grief Recovery Handbook offers grievers the specific actions needed to move beyond loss. New material in this edition includes guidance for dealing with:

  • Loss of faith
  • Loss of career and financial issues
  • Loss of health
  • Growing up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional home

The Grief Recovery Handbook is a groundbreaking, classic handbook that everyone should have in their library.

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  1. Listening Length
    6 hours and 49 minutes
  2. Author
    John W. James, see all
  3. Narrator
    Derek Botten
  4. Audible release date
    June 17, 2019
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Twin Flames Studios
  7. ASIN
    B07T2PYDH3
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 6 hours and 49 minutes
Author John W. James, Russell Friedman
Narrator Derek Botten
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date June 17, 2019
Publisher Twin Flames Studios
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B07T2PYDH3
Best Sellers Rank #8,933 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#29 in Grief & Loss (Audible Books & Originals)
#69 in Grief & Bereavement
#85 in Love & Loss

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5.0 out of 5 stars Effective tool for unprocessed grief
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2024
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I liked that this book covers losses of all types — from physical (death) to things like loss of a sense of safety from childhood trauma. The activities can be kind of intense, but they were effective for me. They helped me get to a place where I could be honest about my relationship with the deceased; not everything was rosy and not everything was a dark storm cloud. Reminded me of 12th step relationship inventory work, but with more specific framing around grief.
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Melissa
5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful and very helpful book
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2024
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A friend recommended this book for processing grief. It is outstanding. Very insightful and supportive. It’s been a balm to a grieving soul.
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Tracey
5.0 out of 5 stars Super helpful for my own grief journey
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2024
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I am a mental health therapist and another therapist recommended this book to me after losing my mother. It has been very helpful to my process and has also given me some helpful ideas for work with clients. My focus in my practice is more with young children and so I haven't done a lot of grief work with adults, this book is helpful to improving my own practice as well as working through my own grief.
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Christine D. Kornbluth
4.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful and easy to read
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2021
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I am a mental health therapist and I got the book as a colleague suggested it when my daughter had a miscarriage. It ended up helping me to grieve the loss of my son to schizophrenia. He is still alive but he is definitely not the same. It helped me to forgive him for being mentally ill, which I had been in denial about (the resentment and the powerlessness). Also to forgive myself for not being able to save my daughter from her pain.

I have recommended the book to countless clients who are grieving. One of the most helpful parts of the book is about dispelling the myths about how to grieve and honoring your losses. One loss brings up all the previous losses. They all deserve to be treated with respect.
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BassJE
5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendously Helpful Guide to Healing Around and Loss
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2023
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This is more than a book - it's a program and it's absolutely amazing. A lot of grief material and resources out there perpetuate what I recognize to be unhealthy ways to get through a loss, but this program My wife completed suicide in April of this year and, for as painful as my healing has been, I think this program has been instrumental me healing the cleanest, fastest, and healthiest ways I possibly could have healed. We couldn't hold Angela's funeral service until 3 months after she died, which gave me time to go through this program. I found this so helpful that I purchased 40 of these books and put them on a table as a free resource for those who attended. I've had several people tell me how helpful it's been in their healing and I'm so grateful for this program.
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Shelia
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2024
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We have a grief recovery class and this book is really helping to bring out things that will help
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5.0 out of 5 stars Grieving is good
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2024
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I have gotten a lot out of this book and it's help me. If you are in pain and have taken a hit, a loss, a death, a divorce this is the book for you. It will help you know it is okay to be sad, feel your pain and process your grief. It has taught me how to be there for others, sit with them in their darkness and listen intently as they process. I have shared this book with others.
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Jim Hipschmidt
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Title
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2024
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After my parents passed one year apart. This books strategies were helpful to help me start to pull out of my funk. Not done, yet, but the book was helpful.

That is high praise because not much else helped.

I would recommend a purchase and a read, I hope it helps you.
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Rob Statham
5.0 out of 5 stars This Book and the Course Changed My Life
Reviewed in Canada on March 10, 2024
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I was dealing with tremendous trauma from serious loss and cumulative losses throughout my life. This book and the course that goes with it saved me as well as some relationships. It helped to also clear out the deadweight in my life that also needed to go, namely toxic people.
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Alma E. Valadez Sanchez
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in Mexico on August 24, 2020
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Our own grieving is a process, this book helped me in that process and it is easy to follow the ideas.
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Jeannette Böttcher
1.0 out of 5 stars no help at all
Reviewed in Germany on June 9, 2019
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This book is no help at all. It reads like an operation manual and stays on the surface at all times. Definetely not useful for anymore who is seriously grieving and has more than two working brain cells. What they call "action program" appears to have been compiled on the kitchen table on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Don't buy.
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Travel iron
5.0 out of 5 stars Grief handbook
Reviewed in Australia on April 4, 2024
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Great book...highly recommended.
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elisa gasparotto
5.0 out of 5 stars eccellente testo consigliato a chi voglia affrontare i sospesi emotivi delle perdite vissute
Reviewed in Italy on July 27, 2015
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Testo base e di riferimento per chiunque voglia affrontare con indicazioni precise una perdita. Io Sono formata e certificata al Grief Recovery Institute e nella mia pratica quotidiana nell'applicazione di questo metodo, riscontro continuamente l'efficacia della proposta e la solidità del metodo. Consigliato il percorso o almeno la lettura del testo a chiunque abbia sperimentato almeno una perdita nella vita: separazione, morte, perdita del lavoro, perdita di abilità fisiche...per riprendere il controllo della propria vita e andare verso una pienezza delle emozioni senza sospesi con le relazioni finite.
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