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The Grief Club: The Secret to Getting Through All Kinds of Change Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Melody Beattie (Author), Romy Nordlinger (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)
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All change and loss involves grief. In this difficult season of the coronavirus pandemic, understanding how to grieve - and help others grieve - is more essential than ever.

The Grief Club is Melody Beattie's profoundly personal, powerfully healing book to help listeners through life's most difficult times.

Part memoir, part self-help book, part journalism, The Grief Club is a book of stories bound together by the human experience of loss in its many forms such as death, divorce, drug addiction, and the tumultuous yet tender process of recovery. It's a book you need to listen to and share.

Twenty years ago, Codependent No More established Melody Beattie as a pioneering voice in self-help literature and endeared her to listeners who longed for healthier relationships. Over the years, Melody has invited listeners into her life with several more best-selling books - each punctuated with her trademark candor and intuitive wisdom.

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  1. Listening Length
    13 hours and 16 minutes
  2. Author
    Melody Beattie
  3. Narrator
    Romy Nordlinger
  4. Audible release date
    September 7, 2021
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Tantor Audio
  7. ASIN
    B09DQX5YQ9
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 13 hours and 16 minutes
Author Melody Beattie
Narrator Romy Nordlinger
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date September 07, 2021
Publisher Tantor Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B09DQX5YQ9
Best Sellers Rank #39,370 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#115 in Grief & Loss (Audible Books & Originals)
#335 in Grief & Bereavement
#372 in Love & Loss

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4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5 out of 5
338 global ratings
Covers losses of all life's aspects not only death.
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Covers losses of all life's aspects not only death.
I like each chapter titled and a summary of what it covers in the Table of Contents. I live the authors writing process and how easily sge makes great points to make you think things through. I recommend this author to anyone I know suffering loss, addiction, recovery, dealing with past, with trauma, with self esteem issues. Best self books I've read so far.
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Dena Murray
5.0 out of 5 stars CHANGED MY LIFE
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2023
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I love this author, not so much the books that require action, but the books where she writes autobiographical and biographical true stories. This book changed my life. This book is both. I couldn't figure out what was going on with me after suffering loss after loss after loss this last year. I was paralyzed with the inability to do what I knew I "should" do to help myself. I couldn't do anything. I'd given up completely. This book, every story (whether it is your story or not) is of tremendous value. Each story carries within tremendous insights. I did read 2 that were really MY story. But I read every single one because there is something for anyone who has been frozen in grief to take in and embrace. After reading this book, I no longer felt alone or that something was wrong with me. It gave me permission to feel the way I have felt and be the way I have been. It's all about baby steps. One moment at a time. One task at a time even if it is the ONLY thing you are capable of doing for however long it takes to move forward, and until one door at a time begins opening again. You make the choice to live rather than wish you could just die. Read this book and through someone else's story you begin to see why all this loss and pain might be worth hanging in there in spite of it. That hopefully there really is something greater awaiting you on the other side no matter how long it takes. It's been 18 months of having lost every single thing one-by-one that once identified who I am: the loss of my career, income, health, friends, and my connection to God. Lost everything I found to be so special and meant the most to me -- and special about myself. Only now, after reading this book, am I reconnecting with God, and very very slowly the new is being revealed. The door is starting to open, not a lot, but enough to keep me going and the most important thing is that I finally got the answer as to WHY all this had to happen exactly the way it did. That was critical. It made the difference. Profound loss changes you forever. No doubt about that. But if you hang in there, what happens inside of you as a result "kind of" makes it worth it. I say "kind of" because I am on the part of the journey where I am still finding out (one tiny bit at a time) what has made hanging in there worth it.
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Deesker
5.0 out of 5 stars A Well Written Book
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2007
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Melody Beattie is at her best in "The Grief Club." She used losing her son as a basis for writing this book. The stories are all very unique within themselves and offer much to the reader. As a person who is going through the grieving process right now, I didn't find this book difficult to read through. I found it comforting, though one doesn't have to be grieving to enjoy or get something out of this book. I would recommend this book to anyone and there is always something to be said about someone who uses their own trials as a means to help others.
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Cynthia L. Wall, LCSW
5.0 out of 5 stars Be ready to go deep
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2024
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As a therapist who has worked over 30 years with many bereaved parents, and those who have lost partners and parents and siblings, I have learned to trust only the authors who have experienced loss themselves. Sadly, Melody qualifies. Her personal story and those from the many people she has talked to, and supported. Covers the range of all possible losses without judging or measuring or comparing. It’s the kind of book that people need in order not to feel alone after a terrible loss. Thank you Melody, as always, for your courage and dedication.
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Mary Ann
4.0 out of 5 stars The Grief Club
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2010
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This is a wonderful book that helps the grieving heart. You can pick and choose a particular situation from the Table of Contents and then go back and read the entire book. I recommend it highly.
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Waterfall2
5.0 out of 5 stars Healing all kinds of loss
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2011
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I love Melody Beattie's writing style--direct, friendly, heartfelt, gentle and yet firm--and with ideas/exercises at the end of each chapter. I am glad she mentions at the start you should read all the chapters, not just the ones pertaining to "your" loss (divorce, death of a child, your medical or financial losses, etc). She lets us know loss is a normal part of being human, and by reading the other chapters not only did i gain information about some other loss (Hepatitis C for instance)--it heped me see compassion all around for others and softened my heart toward others as well as myself. I went thru a divorce,alcoholic spouse, loss of parent, and now a loved one with cancer--her tips for getting well, opening the heart amidst suffering, coping, healing are wonderful--like a balm on a sore heart.
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dena johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars In good condition
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2022
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Great book for a person who lost someone
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Alessandra Cannon
5.0 out of 5 stars It helped me so much with my emotions
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2020
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I have so many books that is always hard to make a choice to get another one. But Im so glad I did get it!! I recommended to my friend and sister . The book has the words that helps us through grief of any kind. It validates your own feelings by the best choice of words that fills your soul with truth. If you walk this earth you will feel grief and this book is a must!
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tezcat
3.0 out of 5 stars Love Melody Beattie, but...
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2018
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I bought this book to help me get thru the passing of my father. I like Melody Beattie, so was hopeful. For me, while there are parts of it that are helpful, I found that it contains So Many stories of various losses, that it was a bit overwhelming as I processed my own grief. Call me selfish, but losing my father was as close to unbearable as I've ever experienced, and I just didn't have it in me to exposure myself to others' losses at the same time. I still like Melody Beattie, but I had to find other ways to move through that phase in my life.
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Meg Coyle
5.0 out of 5 stars Received this book - thank you!
Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2019
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I bought this book for my Sister when she lost her husband to cancer, and I think it helped her.
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Melanie
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 24, 2012
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A highly informative, helpful and healing work, I think everybody should own a copy. Melody Beattie is a wise, down to earth healer, we are blessed to have her works at hand.
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Linda
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2017
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Lovely book very helpful read
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on May 12, 2016
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The most amazing book ever for anyone going through going a terrible loss.
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AirCrystal
5.0 out of 5 stars VEry helpful
Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2017
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Very helpful
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