Recommended Readings - words for a widow's soul...

                                                                                            by William B. Woods, Jr.


Reading Suggestions from Other Young Widows:

  • Life is Goodbye, Life is Hello - Alla Bozarth-Campbell, PhD.

  • Forever Is Now - Wilda Conger

  • A Path Through Suffering: Discovering the relationship between God's mercy and our pain - Elisabeth Elliot

  • The Mourning Handbook - Helen Fitzgerald

  • Widows Wear Stilettos - Carole Brody Fleet

  • To Live Again: Rebuilding your life after you've become a widow - Genevieve Davis Ginsburg

  • Healing After Loss : Daily Meditations for Working through Grief - Martha Whitmore Hickman

  • Journal to the Center of the Soul: a novel - Laurie M. Knight

  • Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow - Elizabeth Lesser

  • A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis

  • No Time For Goodbyes: Coping with sorrow, anger and injustice after a tragic death - Janice H. Lord

  • I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping, and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One - Brook Noe

  • To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings - John O'Donohue

  • Anam Cara - John O'Donahue

  • Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude
    - Jim Perlman, Deborah Cooper, Mara Hart, Pamela Mittlefehldt

  • How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies - Therese A. Rando, PhD.

  • The Bereaved Parent - Harriett S. Schiff

  • What to do when a Loved One Dies - Eva Shaw

  • Believe: A Young Widow's Journey through Brokenness
    and Back
    - Jennifer Silvera

  • The Courage to Grieve: Creative living, recovery, & growth through grief - Judy Tatelbaum

  • Good Grief - Granger e. Westberg

  • Early Widow: A journal of the first year - Mary Jane Worden

  • The Shack - William P. Young

  • The Art of Condolence - Leonard M. Zunin, MD and Hilary Stanton Zunin

Film List

  • Beyond Belief - Documentary of two widows' inspirational journey after September 11th  www.beyondthe11th.org
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