A book for bereaved couples grieving the loss of a child…
“Losing the younger of our identical twin girls on the third day of her life completely shocked us. We’d barely adopted an identity of first time parents before we also donned the title of grieving parents. But there was more to come…”
The death of a child affects the whole family, especially the parents and their relationship. The journey of grief has no set timeline or steps. Rather, it unfolds as each person travels in their own individual way.
This book will help grieving parents
- Understand differences in female and male grieving
- Find the best way to support yourself individually and as a couple
- Bring awareness, acceptance and understanding to the grieving process
- Adjust to life post-loss and reemerge as a stronger couple
- Be a support to a grieving parent
Grieving Parents book synopsis
This book focuses on the effect parental bereavement has on the couple and their relationship. Most of all, the book is about together embracing a life of joy and melancholy, laughter and tears, happiness and sadness. Not either or, but AND.
Surviving Loss As A Couple takes you through the steps to survive the darkness of grief and child loss. The goal is to help couples emerge with a renewed depth of relationship and understanding with your partner. Your relationship as a couple can – and will – be affected by grief. This book provides ways to support yourself and each other through the process.
Grieving Parents is based on bereaved parents’ needs, challenges and detailed descriptions of what has helped grieving couples. The couples interviewed for this book include varying situations and different stages of their journey with grief.
The book describes five steps to survive loss as a couple:
- Allowing
- Awareness
- Acknowledging
- Adjusting
- Absorbing and Integrating
Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple allows parents to move through grief and reemerge as a couple. Order now
The intent of the Grieving Parents book
The goal of this book is to bring awareness to the process of grief. In reality, it is one we will deal with sooner or later in life. My wish is that in breaking the silence we enable society to be more open and understanding with each other. We must allow and accept the experience of grief, however it may be expressed. I hope my sharing will encourage more supporters to stand strongly with someone experiencing emotional pain (grief or other). More importantly, stand with them without the urge to fix or make them feel better before they are ready themselves.
❥ Find out how to tend your grieving heart, join the conversation at Grieving Parents Support Network
Testimonials from Grieving Parents readers
I found Nathalie’s book ‘Grieving Parents’ such a great help in understanding the unique and individual way men and women grieve. Also, the book served as a guide showing how to start to live again as a couple in this new normal. Throughout the book we discovered invaluable, heartfelt insights from other real life couples’ personal story of their journey through loss. The book was so helpful, I decided to purchase a second copy for my grief therapist’s office library. Please share this amazing book and knowledge with other bereaved parents to help them heal and make life a little gentler. – Leah B.
Beautifully written for the grieving couple. Filled with on point observations for the heart. This is also a book you can refer back to when you need it. You’ll keep using the tools she provides in different ways throughout your grief journey. Thank You Nathalie for writing this. Thank you for stepping up and being a beacon of Hope. – D
This book is a must read for parents who experience a loss of a child—of any age. After the death of our teenage daughter, our world was turned upside down. My husband and I grieved in our own vastly different ways. This book helped me understand his grief and taught me how to respect it as well. – Jill
Title: Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple
Author: Nathalie Himmelrich
First Edition: Published September 1, 2014
Pages: 202
Publisher: Reach for the Sky
Available in: Paperback, Kindle
ISBN: 978-0989934749
Translations: German
More information on the book Grieving Parents
❥ Information on the Content
❥ Read the Introductory Chapter
❥ About the people interviewed
❥ Download the one page info sheet
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