As Much Time as it Takes: A Guide to Healthy Grieving

by Martin Keogh, William Shakespeare, Antonio Machado

As Much Time as it Takes is a compassionate and sensible book. It can be read in less than an hour, but its words will stay with you for a lifetime. This book offers practical and sensitive ways to support those who are grieving. It helps you recognize helpful words and actions, while avoiding hurtful clich�s, as you support those who have lost a loved one. If you, yourself, have lost someone, this guide can help you recognize your own feelings and needs during this difficult and perhaps overwhelming time. If you are a professional or volunteer, you will find a collection of tools and an empathy that result from placing yourself in the shoes of the bereaved. This compassionate and sensible book can be read in less than an hour, but its words will stay with you for a lifetime. If you, yourself, have lost someone, this guide can help you recognize your own feelings and needs during this difficult and perhaps overwhelming time. If you are a professional or volunteer, you will find a collection of tools and an empathy that result from placing yourself in the shoes of the bereaved. "The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief or bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." -Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude "This is a practical handbook for the bereaved and their friends, how to live with grief, to express it or not, how to find your natural way through. And the quotations from Neruda, Machado, Dickinson and others are beautifully chosen." -Coleman Barks, translator of The Essential Rumi

150 pages, Paperback

First published April 12, 2012

Reviews

[Jody Sen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simple...timely...real

Short but packed with good things to know and remember. We humans are so uncomfortable with death and grief that we do ourselves and loved ones a disservice when we distract, dismiss, argue, or try to fix those in the grip of grief. This is a good little guide.

[Natalie Coffey · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good

It was more for consoling than dealing with grief yourself. I'm sure it would be an excellent read if someone wanted to sincerely help someone grieving.

[Martin Keogh · Rating 5 out of 5]

As Much Time as it Takes offers practical and sensitive ways to support those who are grieving. This book helps you recognize helpful words and actions, while avoiding hurtful clichés, as you support those who have lost a loved one.

If you, yourself, have lost someone, this guide can help you recognize your own feelings and needs during this difficult and perhaps overwhelming time.

If you are a professional or volunteer, you will find a collection of tools and an empathy that result from placing yourself in the shoes of the bereaved.

This compassionate and sensible book can be read in less than an hour, but its words will stay with you for a lifetime.

[Lisa · Rating 1 out of 5]

I seriously cannot believe I paid for this. The author has got to be kidding. Honestly, even calling this a book is doing a disservice to books everywhere. It was a random collection of very short platitudes. Basically, a chapter could be 8 words broken up into 3 lines. There was one point where each chapter was a single word.

So not helpful. Not a guide. Not a book. Total waste of money. Almost feels like being ripped off and taken advantage of while grieving. Shame on this author.