Abc's of Grief: A Handbook for Survivors

The ABCs of Grief: A Handbook for Survivor meets bereaved persons wherever they might be in the grieving process providing snatches of meaning hope empathy and understanding. This handbook is a product of the authors own grief experience and includes materials collected over a three-year period. Confronting her loss Christine Adams found that it was all right to grieve at her own pace: one day at a time one thought word and letter at a time. Over time she grew and healed.The handbooks alphabetical format allows readers or group leaders to focus on any aspect of grief that suits them. If a reader becomes absorbed in anger or anxiety he or she can go back to reread those parts of the handbook and with each visit will find some new realization and meaning. Every section contain appropriate quotations stories and poems written by survivor who found solace in writing.ABCs was written to be both a source of information and inspiration. The information is useful at a time of grief the encouragement by the author is soothing and the poems and stories remind the reader that others have visited the same places in their grief process.