Grieving the Death of a Mother | Harold Ivan Smith

Grieving the Death of a Mother | Harold Ivan Smith | Excellent it really helped me

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Grieving the Death...

	Grieving the Death of a Mother Harold Ivan Smith Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2003 - 144 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A mother?s death can make a shambles of schedules, priorities, agendas, commitments, and, sometimes, even our most important relationships. A mother?s last breath inevitably changes us. Drawing on his own experience of loss, as well as those of others, Harold Ivan Smith guides readers through their grief, from the process of dying through the acts of remembering and honoring a mother after her death.

So incredibly helpful!

This was the first of Harold Ivan Smith's books that I read following the loss of my mother unexpectedly at the end of November 2007, just three days before her 66th birthday. I had no idea how her death would rock my world and how little comfort society offers middle aged adults who face the death of a parent. Mr. Smith's book felt like a long hug from an old friend validating the confusion and pain that I was experiencing and still do in waves. Reading the book feels like I am talking to a friend...one who has been there, done that. I recommend this book for everyone who has suffered the death of their mother and will be giving it to friends and family in the future. I wish someone had given it to me weeks before I found it on the internet.

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Excellent it really helped me

I purchased this book shortly after losing my dear Mom. She died suddenly after an angioplasty went wrong in the hospital. Reading this book really helped me cope with my loss. I cannot exactly pinpoint why it helped but it did. I think that probably reading the words of someone else who lost a dear Mother and knowing that they got through it somehow made it easier for me. If you lost a Mother you dearly loved this book may also comfort you as it did me.

The "Motherloss" Club

Don't judge a book by its title! I do not wish to be in the "Motherloss Club", but I am. I lost my mother in February 2008. This book has been helpful to my grieving process. I appreciate the author's point of "making time" for grief, and not to let other people put you on their timeline of grief. The loss of one's mother is not something one will ever "get over", and this book validates that feeling. I enjoyed the list of ways to honor one's mother, and I just may try a few of them out. I cannot compare this book to any of the other "motherloss" books, as it is the only one I've read so far. If you are reading this, it is most likely because you or someone that you love has been affected by "motherloss", and I am deeply sorry.

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