As Much Time as it Takes: A Guide to Healthy Grieving

As Much Time as it Takes is a compassionate and sensible book. It can be read in less than an hour, but its words will stay with you for a lifetime. This book offers practical and sensitive ways to support those who are grieving. It helps you recognize helpful words and actions, while avoiding hurtful clichés, as you support those who have lost a loved one. If you, yourself, have lost someone, this guide can help you recognize your own feelings and needs during this difficult and perhaps overwhelming time. If you are a professional or volunteer, you will find a collection of tools and an empathy that result from placing yourself in the shoes of the bereaved. This compassionate and sensible book can be read in less than an hour, but its words will stay with you for a lifetime. If you, yourself, have lost someone, this guide can help you recognize your own feelings and needs during this difficult and perhaps overwhelming time. If you are a professional or volunteer, you will find a collection of tools and an empathy that result from placing yourself in the shoes of the bereaved. “The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief or bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” —Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude “This is a practical handbook for the bereaved and their friends, how to live with grief, to express it or not, how to find your natural way through. And the quotations from Neruda, Machado, Dickinson and others are beautifully chosen.” —Coleman Barks, translator of The Essential Rumi