A Little Book of Self-Care for Those Who Grieve

Paula Becker

Description

Weep. Scream. Hate. Disbelieve. Go numb.

Breathe.

This beautiful book offers a gentle and honest guide for surviving the early days of grief—shock, trauma, disbelief—and beyond. In simple, easy-to-absorb pages composed of short, poetic text and spot illustrations, readers will begin to find the path they need to move through their grief, step by step. From grieving a sudden death or a long illness, someone hard to love or impossible to live without, anyone suffering a loss will see themselves and their grief reflected in these pages.

When author Paula Becker’s son was killed in 2017, she reached for grief books to help her understand how to proceed through the enormous grief engulfing her. Most grief books are tens of thousands of words long—helpful resources, but often too overwhelming for the newly bereaved to navigate with shattered attention spans and broken hearts. With A Little Book of Self-Care for Those Who Grieve, as only someone who knows grief intimately can, Paula Becker offers grievers a touchstone, quiet snippets of care and advice that can be returned to again and again as they travel the lifelong road of grief. A planned foreword from a notable voice in the grief community as well as a resources section rounds out this essential book.

In the vein of It’s OK That You’re Not OK, A Little Book of Self-Care for Those Who Grieve acknowledges the brokenness, the pain, and how grief alters your reality—and with great tenderness and gentle compassion, walks with readers in that new world.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Santé mentale & traumatisme
• Vie de famille
• Soutien psychologique et conseils familiaux
• Santé mentale
• Santé mentale
• Fracture familiale
• Death
• Emotions
• Grief
• Emotion
• Self-help
• Emotions (álbum)
• Bereavement
• Bien-être
• Bien-être
• Bien-être
• Bien-être

Informations

• Publié par: Girl Friday Books
• Date de parution: 28 septembre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781736357965
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

Extrait

A Little Book
of Self-Care
for Those
Who Grieve







Copyright © 2021 by Paula Becker
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.
Published by Girl Friday Books™, Seattle
Produced by Girl Friday Productions
www.girlfridayproductions.com
Design: Rachel Marek
Development & editorial: Sara Spees Addicott
Production editorial: Dave Valencia
Illustrations by Rebekah Nichols
Cover image, title page , and pages 13 , 22 , 35 , 39 , 48 , 56 , 75 , 76 : © Suto Norbert Zsolt/Shutterstock
ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-7363579-5-8
ISBN (e-book): 978-1-7363579-6-5
ISBN (audio): 978-1-954854-10-9
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021904040
First edition




Preface
On June 29, 2017, my twenty-five-year-old son, Hunter, was killed.
The shock of Hunter’s death instantly dead- ened me. I curled into the couch corner, moving lit- tle. When movement became inescapable, my body pressed thickly through what was now an unfamiliar landscape. I had no appetite but could not quench my thirst. I had, at first, little information. My thoughts skittered randomly, unable to form a pattern. Days and nights were marked by how many of them had passed since Hunter’s death.
Eventually, I blindly reached for books to help me understand how to navigate the grief engulfing me. I did find books, but they were too wordy for my shat- tered attention span. Too big to carry easily, to be a



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touchstone. I wanted a guide: short, prescriptive, real- istic. A book to help me help myself, to help me live within my new bereaved reality.
A Little Book of Self-Care for Those Who Grieve began as notes scratched out over many midnights, thoughts formed as I lay sleepless or in the aftermath of painful dreams. This book aims to be a hand to hold for oth- ers who are grieving. Reader, it is for your support. Use this book however you want to. Read it straight through, or read a page a day. Turn to it when you need to. I hope its words will lift and carry those who read them, as surely as the grieving reader carries the book.




A Little Book
of Self-Care
for Those
Who Grieve




Someone is gone,



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and they will not come back.





5


Weep.
Scream.
Hate.
Disbelieve.
Go numb.



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7



Breathe.





9


Rage.
Breathe.
Curse God (or gods).
Beg God (or gods).
Breathe.





11


Remember.