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How to Get to Grips with Grief: 40 Ways to Manage the Unmanageable
This book is for anyone who has lost someone. It may have been recently, or it may have been years ago, but still it stings like it was yesterday.
James Withey has known the grief beast since he was five, when his dad died, and it has followed him ever since. In his twenty years supporting people with their own grief, as a counsellor and social care worker, he has helped others work through their despair and reconcile the injustice of grief.
With his trademark humour and warmth, he provides forty ways to help you live with and manage your grief no matter what stage you're at. It provides comfort for when it all gets too much, ideas for when you feel at a loss for what to do and more than a laugh or two to balance out the sadness.
James Withey has known the grief beast since he was five, when his dad died, and it has followed him ever since. In his twenty years supporting people with their own grief, as a counsellor and social care worker, he has helped others work through their despair and reconcile the injustice of grief.
With his trademark humour and warmth, he provides forty ways to help you live with and manage your grief no matter what stage you're at. It provides comfort for when it all gets too much, ideas for when you feel at a loss for what to do and more than a laugh or two to balance out the sadness.
- GenresGrief
192 pages, Paperback
Published November 15, 2022
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About the author
James Withey
9 books23 followersJames Withey is author of the best selling 'How to Tell Depression to Piss Off: 40 Ways to Get Your Life Back' which was published by Little Brown in May 2020.
The follow up book, 'How to Tell Anxiety to Sod Off', was published by Little, Brown in January 2022.
'How to Get to Grips with Grief' was published in July 2022.
His sixth book 'How to Smash Stress' will be published in March 2023.
He is the founder of The Recovery Letters project which publishes letters from people recovering from depression, addressed to people experiencing it. www.therecoveryletters.com
The Recovery Letters book is published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers and was released in July 2017.
Cosmopolitan named it as 'One of the 12 mental health books everyone should read'.
The sequel to The Recovery Letters book, 'What I Do to Get Through' was published Jessica Kingsley in Feb 2021.
James lives in Hove in East Sussex in the UK with his husband and emotionally damaged cat.
He writes and speaks about depression, anxiety, grief, PTSD and mental health.
The follow up book, 'How to Tell Anxiety to Sod Off', was published by Little, Brown in January 2022.
'How to Get to Grips with Grief' was published in July 2022.
His sixth book 'How to Smash Stress' will be published in March 2023.
He is the founder of The Recovery Letters project which publishes letters from people recovering from depression, addressed to people experiencing it. www.therecoveryletters.com
The Recovery Letters book is published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers and was released in July 2017.
Cosmopolitan named it as 'One of the 12 mental health books everyone should read'.
The sequel to The Recovery Letters book, 'What I Do to Get Through' was published Jessica Kingsley in Feb 2021.
James lives in Hove in East Sussex in the UK with his husband and emotionally damaged cat.
He writes and speaks about depression, anxiety, grief, PTSD and mental health.
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April 28, 2023
This book became a real friend to me after both my parents died within 18 months of each other. It made me cry, laugh out loud and helped me turn towards my feelings of grief rather than attempt to keep running from them. The author really gets the vastness and minute details of grief and communicates this brilliantly. The friendly style and short chapters made it very readable at a time when I was struggling to concentrate long enough to read anything. Highly recommend this book.
October 15, 2022
Sound advice but written rather flippantly I felt.
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