Turning Toward Grief (reflections on life, loss and appreciation)

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.

Turning Toward Grief is a beautiful book by a poet and mindfulness teacher, who shows how poetry can help to process feelings of grief and bring comfort. Especially for those who don’t follow a particular religion.

This book of comforting poems have been shared by thousands of people across the world. The author includes brief prose reflections after each poem, to encourage and support you.

By paying attention to grief (instead of bottling it up), we can (however difficult) turn toward our grief, in gentle ways to help heal.

As a bereavement and end-of-life therapist, I have long waited for a book like this to be written. Claire Willis

Author James Crews is a poet and writer. He curates The Weekly Pause (a free poetry newsletter) from his home in Vermont (USA).

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