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  • Adjusting to Life After the Loss of a Child

  • Coping, Healing and Understanding the Emotions of Grief
  • By: Lora C. Mercado
  • Narrated by: Patty Souza
  • Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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Adjusting to Life After the Loss of a Child

By: Lora C. Mercado
Narrated by: Patty Souza
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Publisher's summary

Learning how to cope with the loss of a child is an extremely difficult and painful experience. The author, Lora C. Mercado, lost her son in 2003 due to a congenital heart defect. Throughout this book, she will share with you some of the things that have helped her through this journey of grief and healing, as well as other valuable tips that she has learned through research and other parents who have lost a child.

Chapters include:

  • A Mother's Love Explained
  • A Father's Grief
  • Planning a Funeral
  • Miscarriage, Infant Loss
  • After a Long Illness
  • Losing Multiple Children
  • Losing an Adult Child
  • Tragic Death, Path of Healing
  • Keeping Their Memory Alive
  • Helping Siblings with Loss
  • Differences in Spouse Grief
  • What to Do with Their Room
  • Moving On
  • Strengthen Your Marriage After Loss
  • Grief of Extended Family
  • Natural Grief Therapies
  • Tips to Help the Grieving
  • Poems and Quotes
  • Grief Support Resources
©2015 Lora C Mercado (P)2015 Lora C Mercado
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Listened to aid in my grief for my son. This is a good listen, as It gives ideas when I'm at a loss on what to do right now. Thank you.

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not worth it

this is a very short and vague book. not helpful at all. don't recommend this

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