Holding Onto Love

Holding Onto Love blends an anguished father's heartfelt experience with advice from respected authors to offer comfort and hope to parents reeling from the death of a child. Chuck Collins' refreshing down-to-earth writing style explores the anguish and hopelessness of child loss and exposes the myriad of emotional landmines grieving families face.<p> The author rejects the common belief that bereaved fathers and mothers must move on or get over it to have normal lives. In contrast Chuck offers a strategy for survival and healing that recognizes a new sense of normal and renewed purpose in life. A special chapter educates relatives and friends how to reach out to a grief-stricken family what not to say or do and includes a checklist of helpful suggestions.<p> Holding Onto Love tackles difficult topics including spousal and sibling grief returning to work handling holidays grieving through investigations civil or criminal litigation and shares the author's attempts for after-death communication. This candid but gentle account finds hope through the tears and is a must read for grieving families and their loved ones.