I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 17 Assurances on Grief

I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 17 Assurances on Grief"Grief has run through my life like thread through fabric; at times gossamer thin and barely there, other times weaving thick, clumsy darns across the rips. In my grief I am a mother, a child, a sister, a wife, a woman, a friend. I am also a writer." When Clare Mackintosh lost her five week old son, she soon discovered there are no neat, labeled stages of grief like so many books insist. The shape of each loss is different; when a parent, relative, or

Divorce affects thousands of children each year

siblings may temporarily “lose” their grieving parents

The book includes a list of the 10 things you should never say to someone who is grieving

the five phases of mourning

Grandma Beaver gives her a special gift

from the first day back at school to the first anniversary of the death

past and present

It is important that school teachers and staff know how to respond to bereavement and how they can best help the child

Although a mother's mortality is inevitable no book has discussed the profound lasting and far reaching effects of this loss until Motherless Daughters

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You are not alone

To the Gorge invites readers to consider what our greatest losses can teach us about how to live the one life we get