Healing After Loss – by Martha Hickman

Mental health is also just health, and this book’s about an underexamined area of mental health. We say “underexamined”, because for something that affects almost everyone sooner or later, there’s not nearly so much science being done about it as other areas of mental health.

This is not a book of science per se, but it is a very useful one. The format is:

Each calendar day of the year, there’s a daily reflection, consisting of:

• A one-liner insight about grief, quoted from somebody
• A page of thoughts about this
• A one-liner summary, often formulated as a piece of advice

The book is not religious in content, though the author does occasionally make reference to God, only in the most abstract way that shouldn’t be offputting to any but the most stridently anti-religious readers.

Bottom line: if this is a subject near to your heart, then you will almost certainly benefit from this daily reader.

Click here to check out Healing After Loss, and indeed heal after loss