Grief Hope In The Aftermath

Losing someone you love feels like you are adrift at sea – lost and alone. You are overcome by sorrow and heartache and unsure of how to continue life without them. Gary Sturgis writes with deep insight about the journey of love and loss and how to chart a course to healing. Through his work facilitating support groups and conducting workshops, he shares what he has learned on a personal level in an honest and heart-felt way. He offers advice and encouragement to those of us grieving the loss of a loved one. Gary takes us through the physical and emotional effects of grief, helping us to navigate its difficult aspects while teaching us to recover during the process. He offers a comforting hand to help us steer through the rough waters he has experienced since his loss. By sharing his own reflections and those of people he has encountered along the way, he puts the issues of life and death in perspective and ultimately gives us courage to move forward. Although we may never totally accept our loss or recover from our grief, Gary helps us find hope in the aftermath.

Loss is a four-letter word that grips our hearts and gridlocks our lives. Grief can hold us captive until we surrender it to God. How do we find the necessary grace to journey through the mourning process? Juxtaposed to the outpouring of her mother’s (Carolyn Rhea) words about grief, the author shares her parallel journey from the emotional abyss of grief after becoming an adult orphan. With candor, the author shares her own emotions experienced along the spectrum of loss after her parents’ deaths: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—adding interactive options for readers. Five sections cover common emotions and provide: Scripture lists, counsel from grief experts, sections with helps and tangible handles on dealing with grief.

This book offers simple, easy-to-read suggestions for surviving in the immediate aftermath of suicide. When people die by suicide, confusion, misunderstanding, conflicting emotions, and undeserved shame can paralyze those who loved them. But healing is possible. Start here. When these survivors learn they are not alone, they can begin to take one moment at a time, to breathe, to take care of themselves, and to heal. This book offers small bits of information that move readers forward a little at a time...toward a new life of healing and hope. Friends who want to help and even professionals who work with survivors can use this book to gain insight into what it really means for suicide to destroy lives and what it takes to help someone begin again. The journey is long, but healing is possible. Hope in the Aftermath of Suicide provides good first steps in finding a unique path through this kind of complicated grief.

There is a way out of grief. It will take time, but the pain will lessen, and your heart will heal. You will survive, and this book shows you how.

Lori lost her son Logan when he took his life in December of 2017. As her life and the way she knew it was altered forever, she used writing and social media as a way to process her grief. By doing so, she began creating awareness for suicide and mental health, which fulfilled a new purpose and encouraged her to continue. This book is a synopsis of her posts, a journal-like account of the struggles faced by Lori and her family through the aftermath of the 'What Ifs' and the things they found hope in. It's for those that want insight into the neverending journey of losing a child, especially by suicide. It's for those that are struggling through their own demons, and looking for hope, options, and support. It's for those that have joined the club and lost their own children. Offering the realization that your state of mind and reactions are normal, and that you aren't alone in them. A real-time glimpse inside a mother's heart over the first year after losing her son.

The unthinkable has happened. Painful. Crushing. Traumatic. Confusing. Complicated. No chance to say goodbye. No final embrace, kiss, or touch. No opportunity to clear the air, ask and give forgiveness, or make amends. A life gone. The tsunami has come, and now you're left standing amid the aftermath. What do you do? Reach out and grab the hand of multiple award-winning author and grief counselor Gary Roe. Let him walk with you through this uncharted, forbidding territory. You need a companion who can be a source of comfort, perspective, hope, and healing. Let Gary journey with you through the aftermath and help you pick up the pieces and begin to rebuild your heart and life. Aftermath was written to... Connect with your heart in all the pain, grief, and confusion. Be a companion for you in this unwanted, heart-crushing process that has been thrust upon you. Be a source of comfort, perspective, healing, and peace. Provide practical tools to help you pick up the pieces and begin to rebuild your heart and life. In Aftermath, you can discover how to... Be kind to yourself and patient with yourself during this incredibly hard time. Manage the racing thoughts and volatile emotions that come. Deal with other people and the unhelpful words and weird reactions that come your way. Navigate the tough spiritual issues and faith questions that confront your soul. Grieve in healthy ways that honor the one you lost, take your own heart seriously, and express kindness and compassion to those around you. Abandon the notion of quick fixes, self-medicating relief, and the lying voice of addiction as a way out. Latch onto the truth that no one is beyond repair and that anyone can heal - including you. Use your grief as fuel for good and make this death count by living with more purpose and meaning than ever before. Save lives and become part of the solution to this raging suicide epidemic. You didn't choose this road. You woke up on day and found you were on it. You're left standing in amid the aftermath. But you are not alone. Far from it. Let Aftermath become a understanding companion for you in the days ahead.

This book is a poetic flow of emotions going beyond combatting emotional pain and heartache. It is an experience for a larger platform that is bigger than just the concept of grief. Tragedy is discussed poetically in its rawest form and how the aftermath can impact love, despair, and hope, the emotions that people are hesitant to share but carefully keep hidden within themselves. Hope is capsuled within a few hollowed moments, combined with the cries of a soul, using an interesting play of words to help others feel as though they are not alone during the healing process or change the persons perspective on many things as they move forward with their life. It is a collection of free verse pieces that reflect the depths of a broken heart and how love is defined and remains behind when life is impacted by an unforeseen tragedy.