Good Grief: 50th Anniversary

Losing someone who means a lot to you, or something that is important for you and your life is what causes grief. The moments of dealing with grief and loss are the moments when it is hard to find hope and strength to continue and the moments when you think that everything has fallen apart. Regardless if your grief was caused by loss of a loved one, break up, divorce or job loss, the book Good Grief by Granger E Westberg can help you overcome the difficult period. 

Granger E Westberg was a professor and clergyman who is widely known for his work of exploring and encouraging the relation between religion and medicine. He founded a movement known as faith community nursing, with which he wanted to accomplish one main goal – to foster holistic healing through helping people find the hope for life in religion. 

As a person who has knowledge from medicine and religion, in the book Good Grief, he examined and explained the ten stages of grief with that wanted to help the readers understand them and go through them in a less painful way. According to his statement, the ten stages of grief include: shock, emotion, depression, physical distress, panic, guilt, anger, resistance, home and acceptance. The author explains that each person going through a period of grief, goes through these ten stages, which are all associated with different feelings. 

By reading the book Good Grief by Granger E Westberg you can understand your emotions and struggle through the whole period. By understanding the stages of grief it would be easier for you deal with the emotions and find a way to ease your pain and desperation. This is a Christian-inspired book that for 50 years (this is why the latest edition is called Good Grief: 50th Anniversary) has helped numerous people from all parts of the world overcome the difficulties associated with grief. 

If you are going through a period of feeling blue, or you know someone who is going through difficult period of grieving, we warmly recommend you to buy this book. This is a book that can help anyone to face the reality, accept what can't be changed and move on. After reading Good Grief by Granger E Westberg you will realize that despite your loss, life is beautiful and that there are many good things in life for which you should be thankful, which are the same things for which it is worth living for and finding strength to continue fighting against the challenges you are faced in life.