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101 Ways You Can Help: How to Offer Comfort and Support to Those Who Are Grieving
Contributor(s): Aleshire, Liz (Author)
ISBN: 1402217560     ISBN-13: 9781402217562
Publisher: Sourcebooks
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2009
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Annotation: A handbook for those who don't know how to help their bereaved friends, coworkers, neighbors, or relatives.

There are an estimated eight million newly bereaved people in the United States each year, and as author Liz Aleshire always said, "a grief shared is a sorrow halved" is a cliche; because it's so true. The presence of others is a priceless source of comfort, and 101 Ways You Can Help gives readers the universal basics of helping.

What's more, readers will find specific tools for how to offer support based on their relationship to the person who is grieving or deceased, no matter whether it's a boss or a neighbor. Begun by a mom who lost her son at 16, and finished by her friends when she became seriously ill, this is a book that lives its message.

101 Ways You Can Help has the kind of heart and spirit that will encourage readers to reach out, arming them with the do's and dont's for the delicate situations surrounding bereavement and loss.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Self-help | Death, Grief, Bereavement
Dewey: 155.937
LCCN: 2008046209
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 6.9" (0.55 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Death/Dying
 
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Publisher Description:

What to Do (and What Not to Do) When a Friend, Co-Worker, or Relative Suffers a Loss

With 101 quick and concrete suggestions you can use immediately, 101 Ways You Can Help offers practical information on the dos and don'ts of handling grief and loss. You'll find the universal basics of helping, as well as specific tools for how to offer support based on your relationship to the person who is grieving, from a boss to a backyard neighbor:

  • Accept that you can't fix it. Stop trying.
  • Tuck a book of stamps in that sympathy card.
  • Donate a vacation day.
  • Don't say: She's in a better place.
  • Be a little pushy.
  • Help with the pets.
  • Listen.

There are an estimated eight million newly bereaved people in the United States each year. Through this book, Liz Aleshire, who experienced personally and professionally what helps and what hurts, encourages you to reach out and gives you suggestions on how to ease the delicate situations surrounding bereavement.

Contributor Bio(s): Aleshire, Liz: - Liz Aleshire lost her only son to cancer when he was just 16. This is the book she wanted to hand to those who tried to comfort her. After she recently became seriously ill before passing away in October, six of her friends adopted the spirit of the book and helped finish writing it.