Good Grief: A Companion for Every Loss

Granger E. Westberg

Feb 2019 · Fortress Press

About this eBook

With more than three million copies in print, Good Grief offers timeless wisdom for all who grieve, no matter how large or small the loss.

For more than fifty years Good Grief has helped millions of readers, including NFL players and a former first lady, find comfort, understand their emotions, and regain hope after loss. This classic text identifies ten stages of grief--shock, emotion, depression, physical distress, panic, guilt, anger, resistance, hope, and acceptance--but, recognizing that grief is complex and deeply personal, defines no "right" way to grieve.

Good Grief offers valuable insights on the emotional and physical responses we all may experience during the natural process of grieving something as small as a change in plans to something as traumatic and final as death. Reflection questions sprinkled throughout the book help you explore your own experience with each stage of the grieving process.

Good Grief includes a foreword by Dr. Timothy Johnson, a leading communicator of medical health care information, and an afterword by the author's daughters that shares how the book came to be and how it continues to impact people today.

Whether you are mourning the death of a loved one, the end of a marriage, moving to a new home, or other difficult life changes, Good Grief is a proven steady companion in times of loss and transition.

Ratings and reviews

Now retired from my many years as a pastor of small population areas of the Texas, the LARGE southern state in the USA, I met with and ministered on a daily basis to return the membership of large and tiny churches. You can imagine how many devoted and not so devoted folks who.best were suffering from more types of new or ongoing grief due to just one thing : trying to understand and begin to deal with their own journey in life now that a sudden or prolonged family member or friend including their own new grief has changed their life which has been torn upside down by this thing called Grief has made this unexpected part of their lives ! I was given a tiny, but only in physical form, BOOK THAT REALLY CHANGED MY REASON for continuing to help understand LOSS of ANY kind of grief which came into all llives as long as we are to take part in living, loving, and working to understand our own responsibility in helping others to be a part of doing the same for others ! RevJerry

About the author

Granger E. Westberg was a widely respected pioneer in holistic healthcare and the interrelationship of religion and medicine, and founder of the parish nurse program