The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition

the Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses Including Health, Career, and Faith

By: John W. James, Russell Friedman

Narrated by: Derek Botten

Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

Updated to commemorate its 20th anniversary, this classic resource further explores the effects of grief and sheds new light on how to begin to take effective actions to complete the grieving process' and work towards recovery and happiness. Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories as well as from others', the authors illustrate how it is possible to recover from grief and regain energy and spontaneity.

Based on a proven program, The Grief Recovery Handbook offers grievers the specific actions needed to move beyond loss. New material in this edition includes guidance for dealing with:

• Loss of faith
• Loss of career and financial issues
• Loss of health
• Growing up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional home

The Grief Recovery Handbook is a groundbreaking, classic handbook that everyone should have in their library.

©2009 The Grief Recovery Institute (P)2019 The Grief Recovery Institute

Critic reviews

“This book is required for all my classes. The more I use this book, the more I believe that unresolved grief is the major underlying issue in most people’s lives. It is the only work of its kind that I know of that outlines the problem and provides the solution.” (Bernard McGrane, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Chapman University)

Finally happy memories

the book is helpful and I’m actually able now to think of some new memories that were happy times instead of sad memories that were later at the end.
I was able to listen at 1.3 speed for most of the book and then I only slowed it down to 1.0 for a couple of the instructions.
So I also realize that I’m grieving the loss of a loved one and grieving the loss of my job.
I like it but am having trouble completing the work because I do not have the visual for what to draw. Looked online helped some.
Death loss of a job etc good for everyone lol

I enjoyed everything about this book.

The content, the encouragement, the admonishment for recovery with action. Thank you for making this in audible format!

a manual for grief

loved the contents, very practical. compassionate with evidenced based, results oriented action plan. well read also.

Great for healing

This book has helped me so much, I lost my husband in may 2022 and then my mom Dec 2022. Rough year for us so this has helped with healing and looking at it a different way. I was mad at God for taking them both so close. Definitely must listen if your hurting like I am / was.

Buying the paper copy too!

This is so helpful and I’m sure I can Google the visuals but I will buy the paper version and pick this apart both ways to really mine this treasure.

A book that everyone should read

This book was incredible in so many ways. if you are dealing with grief, buy it. It will help.

Happi

This is an awesome book. Very eye opening on how we have been conditioned to grieve alone which doesn’t work. Do the work in this book and free yourself from things holding you back and haunting you.

Excellent

I have been helped so much with this book. The process working through grief and life long loss will help me for the rest of my life. Thank you!

Thinking. Feeling. Next step: Doing

I learned a lot and was surprised to feel inspired by listening to this book. I was grieving the death of someone close to me and bought this book as a resource. I found that the book applied more to other types of grief that sat unaddressed during my lifetime. Now I have insight on what I can do to move forward. I plan to read most of the book a second time, and to begin working on the exercises I have listened to and thought about. Thank you for writing the book. It is tremendously helpful.

Get the physical book.

Although the narrator’s voice was pleasant, I was frustrated often when he got certain words totally wrong. You see, I tend to read along in a physical copy of the book when I listen to an audio book, as it improves my retention of the material if I can see and hear it. Unfortunately, the narrator often would misread a word such as “relived” as “relieved” thereby changing The Who meaning of the sentence. Luckily I had the book so I was not confused, but someone who is going just on the audio might get the wrong idea about certain statements the authors were making.