How to Heal a Grieving Heart

This is the most BEAUTIFUL book, and I really love the orange satin ribbon with butterflies imprinted as a marker. After I finished reading each beautiful page, I couldn't help but hug the book and tears flowed from my eyes. I came back on to order 4 more as GIFTS. Just looking at the pictures of butterflies and flowers on each page is somehow so comforting. I get Monarch butterflies come to me, the last one was from my Auntie who died in the hospital and I didn't know she died, but she came to say good-bye to me as a Monarch Butterfly. My girlfriend got a yellow Swallowtail butterfly come to her when her sister died, and her other dead sister contacts her as a Dragonfly, just as written in the book. It's a comforting book to read if someone is going through anything negative in their life. Its a treasure of a book and makes a great gift with wonderful life messages. Amazing designer of the book. I will being buying more as gifts.When my 15 year of Pomeranian-SIMBA died, we made a wooden coffin for her and wrapped her in a golden towel and for some reason my Pink Camellias were blooming abundantly, so I covered Simba with the flowers and wrapped her tightly in a heavy duty plastic bag and wrapped DUCT tape around it and placed it in the wooden coffin and buried her in our backyard. Upon filling the hole with soil and placing a bowl of flowers on top of the mound, we put our hands together in prayer and said "Namu Amida Butsu, Namu Amida Butsu, Namu Amida Butsu, AMEN." Amazingly, as we were cleaning up the area, my son said..."Mom, don't move, there's a HUMMINGBIRD behind you." Awww, that was Simba's spirit showing us she's not in pain and can walk and was happy. That HUMMINGBIRD flew all around the backyard with joy, and that's the feeling we could feel from Simba's spirit. I get a lot of signs from spirits that have crossed over. The morning after my uncle's funeral in Fresno, California, he came to visit me as a grey Mourning Dove in my backyard, thanking me for having my own service for him here in Culver City, because I am not able to travel, so the time of funerals, I light a candle and ring a bell like in church and say a prayer to my relative. The dove was fat like my uncle with a pot-belly and the dove wobbled like my uncle who wore cowboy boots because he was a rancher and truck-driver. It was so cute, I knew it was my uncle, very easy to recognize him even as a fat dove. I believe in spirits making contact so I get a lot and will hear them give me messages, which I act upon their request, otherwise they won't leave me alone. I'll keep hearing their message, so I learned to do as they are asking me, then, they are satisfied and can go on their journey to the other world. The afternoon after my son's Police Boss's morning funeral, there was a HAWK or FALCON sitting on our driveway gate, when I saw it, I knew it was my son's Police boss-the Lieutenant waiting to thank my son for attending his morning funeral, I called my son out to salute the HAWK, because it was the Lieutenant's spirit. Spirits do make contact with their loved ones in various forms, its whatever catches your ATTENTION. Talk to them, they hear you and spirits never miss their families' celebrations, look for them. Put windchimes out and they'll make contact to say "Hi" I always put my hands together and say outloud...."THANK YOU SWEET SPIRITS."

My beloved mother passed exactly three weeks ago today. Her death was sudden and unexpected. I'm alone and must tend to all of her affairs single-handedly, which adds extra stress and pressure to my already overloaded sensibilities. A few nights ago I began searching Amazon for books that might help me get through my grief. I wasn't looking for a "fix" so much as something that would provide ongoing guidance and perspective. I received this book today and am glad that I found it. Every page provides a simple, gentle, eloquently-written message that focuses on one aspect of loss, which I like. I find the messages addressing regret particularly powerful, because I find myself constantly retracing my steps and ruminating over what I could have done differently. Some of the messages make me cry, but I know it's okay. As the authors of the book state, we need to be gentle with ourselves and allow ourselves to express our feelings whenever they come up. I also love the butterflies and flowers that grace the pages of this lovely hardcover book. I chose a short poem by T.C. Ring called "Butterfly" to use in my mom's announcement. The photos of these beautiful winged beings and the flowers they light upon are a lovely metaphor for growth, beauty and transformation. The book also comes with a sweet ribbon bookmark covered with - you guessed it - butterflies. I know this is a book I will refer to time and time again when I need a gentle reminder that I'm not alone and that what I'm going through is a painful but important life passage. I also think this would be a lovely book to give someone you know who is going through the difficulty of losing a loved one.

This small book consists of 101 short (one page or less) comments about grief and its causes, symptoms, and aftereffects. Each of these short essays puts into words thoughts and feelings that are natural for those who have just lost a much loved person from their lives. Its messages are universally applicable and full of empathy, understanding, and inspiration. The book lends itself to use as a daily devotional as each entry is focused and deep in its thoughts and suggestions.Using the concepts put forth by Ms. Virtue and Mr. Van Praagh, a mourner can develop a personal and unique blueprint for a positive recovery experience that will not just help those in grief to survive, but will lead them to a transformational passage through the valley on the way to higher mountaintops of life.Coupled with gorgeous photography and graphics, this book is a beautiful, practical, and loving gift for the person who has just entered a period of significant grief. I have given this book to newly grieving friends on several occasions, always with great results.By Paul McCright, Author of "Heaven Talks"

This is an easy read and is designed in such a way that you can thumb through the book and land on the page you're meant to read. You don't have to read this book from start to finish unless you want to. The pages are in bright colors with happy images of things like butterflies or flowers. Each page reads as its own, almost like affirmations or statements surrounding what one goes through when grieving.Even though this book deals with grieving over the loss due to a death of a loved one, I found that the passages on each page can also be applied to those who are grieving over a relationship that has ended and they're unable to crawl out from under the rock. Grief after all transcends just death. I would recommend this as a beautiful gift to someone who is having a hard time continuing on with life on any level including after the death of a loved one. If you're a happy camper, then you may not find much draw with this book. It's still nice to have in case you are ever faced with feelings of grief.

This is an extremely beautiful book made with lots of love. Each page is a work of art. Every page contains a small and simple message which has immense depth. It is a pleasure simply to hold this book in your hand. I absolutely loved it. I bought it for Rs 88 but it is worth much more.

Although no heart totally heals after the loss of a loved one/s, this book does give you a soothing feeling and the gift of hope. Our family have put to rest a father/husband, 4 brothers/sons all in a very short amount of time. My mom is very religious and very spiritual and I was looking for something that could give her a little peace of mind. When she has a moment of loneliness, she picks up this book and reads it and it helps her to cope.No book will heal a broken heart and we grieve everyday, this book helps my mom and that is a beautiful gift in light of all she has lost. Thanks to the writers.Mary Coombs

This comforted and helped me.

Not so much a reading book, but pages with beautiful words to comfort a little, the pain is reduced as you can identify with the words on one page ,the background pictures are soothing,and it is clearly a book wrote from people who know the right words to use.easy to concecentrate for a 1 minute page read, as opposed to a self help book,when it is an obvious time when you are in no emotional state to help yourself.

Doesn't help. Very boring. And not relatable to all loses. Very catholic in approach. Not a good purchase.