Grieving Forward: Death Happened, Now What?

A Practical Guide for Healing & Understanding the Grief Process

by Cathy Clough & Linda Pouliot

We have helped thousands of people to effectively navigate their personal healing journey.  What I want you to know is that healing is possible for you, too.  And it doesn’t matter how recent or how long ago the death(s) occurred.  Healing is absolutely possible.  What does healing mean?  Healing, in this case, means returning to a place of wholeness and normal functioning once again.  The level that you were functioning at before the death occurred.  How does healing happen?  One healing baby step at a time.  And with an understanding of what is normal for grief.  Which is what grief is and what grief does and how healing happens.  The information in this book is your roadmap for walking through the pain of grief and healing.

Equipping You With Information For Healing

When Cathy and I were widowed years ago, we both discovered that we didn’t know what we didn’t know about grief.  And neither one of us understood how healing happened.  The result was that we both had to figure out everything by ourselves.  And, because of this, we both ended up learning a lot of things the hard way.  We don’t want you to end up in the same boat.  In fact, you are the reason we wrote this book.  We wrote this book for you so that you have the information that you need for healing at your fingertips.

Together we explore:

• The 5 needs of every griever.
• How to deal with normal grief guilt because inappropriate guilt has the potential to land us in a pothole and keep us stuck in unresolved grief.
• Normal grief anger because there is a lot to be angry about.
• Normal grief depression because there’s a lot to be depressed/sad about.
• The “dumb” things people say because some people do say “dumb” things.  And we don’t want anyone’s words to sidetrack your healing or steal your healing power/energy.
• Sorting, saving and purging your loved one’s belongings without regret – but only when you are ready.  We share two plans.
• What it means to create a “New Normal.”

And much more… Including why it’s important to have a plan for navigating holidays, special days, and the anniversary of the death.  The information in this book is your personal roadmap for walking through the pain of grief and healing.

This book is also beneficial for use in grief support groups, pastoral care, hospice, funeral home client care package… Every griever needs information and hope for healing.