Grieving Room (a book on making space after loss)

Sometimes when you are grieving, it can take longer to recover than other people, who just tell you to ‘move on’. This book is to give hope and healing, to people who are feeling emotionally at sea from the death of someone they love. Also read about grieving the death of companion animals.

Grieving Room is by an ordained minister and grief educator. Only when her own sister died from cancer did she realised what grieving people don’t need, and what they do. Room for imperfect goodbyes and room for a changing faith, room for regret and to rage at the world.

Room for hard holidays and to never ‘get over it’. In a world that wants to rush towards ‘closure and healing’, this book gives permission to let loss linger.

When we lose someone we love, we are forever changed. When our person dies, our grief needs room. People long to reduce the enormity of our grief to ‘time heals all wounds’ or ‘at least she isn’t in pain anymore’.

Yet grief cannot be just willed away. In a world that wants to rush towards closure and healing, this author gives you permission to let loss linger. When the very worst happens, you need to give yourself (and others) grieving room.

If someone is struggling to cope and can’t afford private counselling, they can receive free grief counselling from Cruse.