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Good-bye For Now: Practical Help and Personal Hope for Those Who Grieve
Good-Bye For Now— This three-in-one guide will assist, comfort, and encourage those who have lost a loved one. O'Brien tackles the urgent, immediate tasks such as planning the service and taking care of financial matters and offers comfort and encouragement for the long haul, the valley of healing ahead.
144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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December 28, 2018
****Welby’s checklists and suggestions for organization are the best I’ve seen. ****
Counselor, teacher and author, Welby O’Brien, offers sensible advice, practical help and spiritual hope in her 2018 release, “Goodbye for Now: Practical Help and Personal Hope for Those Who Grieve.”
Welby designed this very hands-on book as a three-in-one guide and begins with “The Practical,” where she provides “checklists of things to do” in the initial days of loss and grief. “The Personal” segment offers encouragement, comfort and guidance for how to take care of yourself when wracked by grief, a time when you least want to but need to for necessary “healing and growth.” The last segment is filled with scripture “Promises” that point to the “reality of our hope in God.”
Because of the sensible advice found in these pages I believe the book is a necessary addition for anyone due to its sound common sense and encouragement at a very difficult emotional time, a time everyone will face. For example, at death some very practical things need to be decided, such as if there’s organ donation, who will take care of the body and what funeral arrangements need to be made.
If advance funeral planning has not taken place choices between cremation or traditional burial arise and costs can rise quickly as well at a time when we are most vulnerable and least likely to make good financial choices, yet budgets must be considered because of the wide range of costs. For example, if traditional burial is selected Welby writes, “…caskets begin at about $400 and can cost as much as $20,000.”
Other things to consider are the number of certified death certificates needed; bank accounts, social security payments and other financial and legal matters; planning the funeral and notifying friends, family members and social media. Welby’s checklists and suggestions for organization are the best I’ve seen.
However, the appendices are even better. Appendix A includes samples of obituaries, prices and funeral notices. Appendix B offers a sample funeral service and Appendix C is how to talk to children about death, the process of grief and suggested do’s and don’ts.
Appendix D, “Preparing Your Own Goodbye,” includes checklists for items done in advance that makes things easier for loved ones left behind. Items such as bank account numbers, passwords, safe deposit boxes, will or trust information, medical directives and prepaid funeral services.
Appendix E contains a touching salvation message, while F is about “walking through the valley of “death with a loved one and why we should “fear no evil.”
This faith-based book is an exceptional resource filled with detailed checklists, spiritual encouragement, comfort and hope regardless of where you are in the spectrum of grief and I give it the highest recommendation
‘Goodbye for Now: Practical Help and Personal Hope for Those Who Grieve,’ by Welby O’Brien, Deepriver Books, 2018, 158 Pages, 978-1632694805, $12.99
“Gail’s Bookshelf” Midwest Book Reviews: "September 2018"
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Counselor, teacher and author, Welby O’Brien, offers sensible advice, practical help and spiritual hope in her 2018 release, “Goodbye for Now: Practical Help and Personal Hope for Those Who Grieve.”
Welby designed this very hands-on book as a three-in-one guide and begins with “The Practical,” where she provides “checklists of things to do” in the initial days of loss and grief. “The Personal” segment offers encouragement, comfort and guidance for how to take care of yourself when wracked by grief, a time when you least want to but need to for necessary “healing and growth.” The last segment is filled with scripture “Promises” that point to the “reality of our hope in God.”
Because of the sensible advice found in these pages I believe the book is a necessary addition for anyone due to its sound common sense and encouragement at a very difficult emotional time, a time everyone will face. For example, at death some very practical things need to be decided, such as if there’s organ donation, who will take care of the body and what funeral arrangements need to be made.
If advance funeral planning has not taken place choices between cremation or traditional burial arise and costs can rise quickly as well at a time when we are most vulnerable and least likely to make good financial choices, yet budgets must be considered because of the wide range of costs. For example, if traditional burial is selected Welby writes, “…caskets begin at about $400 and can cost as much as $20,000.”
Other things to consider are the number of certified death certificates needed; bank accounts, social security payments and other financial and legal matters; planning the funeral and notifying friends, family members and social media. Welby’s checklists and suggestions for organization are the best I’ve seen.
However, the appendices are even better. Appendix A includes samples of obituaries, prices and funeral notices. Appendix B offers a sample funeral service and Appendix C is how to talk to children about death, the process of grief and suggested do’s and don’ts.
Appendix D, “Preparing Your Own Goodbye,” includes checklists for items done in advance that makes things easier for loved ones left behind. Items such as bank account numbers, passwords, safe deposit boxes, will or trust information, medical directives and prepaid funeral services.
Appendix E contains a touching salvation message, while F is about “walking through the valley of “death with a loved one and why we should “fear no evil.”
This faith-based book is an exceptional resource filled with detailed checklists, spiritual encouragement, comfort and hope regardless of where you are in the spectrum of grief and I give it the highest recommendation
‘Goodbye for Now: Practical Help and Personal Hope for Those Who Grieve,’ by Welby O’Brien, Deepriver Books, 2018, 158 Pages, 978-1632694805, $12.99
“Gail’s Bookshelf” Midwest Book Reviews: "September 2018"
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August 8, 2019
Goodbye for Now: Practical Help and Hope for Those Who Grieve provides excellent insight in dealing with the death of a loved one. So far in my lifetime, I have had to say goodbye to all of my grandparents, three of my husband’s grandparents (one died before we became a couple) and countless other friends and family members. Grief is hard. No matter what a person does, he or she can not prepare adequately.
Goodbye for Now includes practical information for dealing with grief and the steps to take after a loved one dies. It is definitely a useful book to have and read. Whether you have just lost a loved one, are about to lose a loved one, or just want information for when you do lose a loved one, this book has something to offer you.
Welby O’Brien has a masters degree in counseling as well as a teaching degree. She is an author of several books and is a contributing author to both Chicken Soup for the Soul and Shepherding Women in Pain.
So check out this book for yourself.
I received a copy of this book for my fair and honest review.
Goodbye for Now includes practical information for dealing with grief and the steps to take after a loved one dies. It is definitely a useful book to have and read. Whether you have just lost a loved one, are about to lose a loved one, or just want information for when you do lose a loved one, this book has something to offer you.
Welby O’Brien has a masters degree in counseling as well as a teaching degree. She is an author of several books and is a contributing author to both Chicken Soup for the Soul and Shepherding Women in Pain.
So check out this book for yourself.
I received a copy of this book for my fair and honest review.
August 20, 2013
This book was very helpful after the loss of my husband.
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