Ambushed by Grief: A Survival Guide for the Early Shock of Bereavement

Book excerpt: Ambushed by Grief is a different kind of book for the grieving. It is more than a series of meditations, more than a description of the experience of grief. It is a workbook, designed to be used by anyone who has lost a loved one. What will you learn in Ambushed by Grief? You are not crazy. You are grieving. You'll get through this your way and that's okay. You may be ambushed by grief in unexpected ways. You need to throw a pity party. Your relationship doesn't have to end . . . love does not die. When you are grieving you go through many emotions, sometimes so fast you may think that you are crazy, say authors Eloise Cowherd and Toni Griffith. Ambushed by Grief is "fragments, findings, insights and meanderings," meant to be picked up and put down, read over and over, written in, and even thrown at the wall. It is a guide and a companion through the early, devastating weeks of grief.