How to Help a Grieving Friend: A Candid Guide to Those Who Care, Paperback

Half how-to guide, half personal memoir, this concise, easy-to-read book will equip you to offer meaningful, practical comfort to those who've just experienced profound loss. Know what to say and what to do during every phase of your friend's grieving process.

... a long-overdue resource for those who are grieving, written by someone who truly lived it. The simple, practical suggestions for those who want to help are priceless. (Helen Martin, BSN, CHPN)

No longer will I avoid a bereaved friend out of the fear that I might say the wrong thing. No longer will I promise to pray and wonder what what I'm supposed to do next. If someone you know is grieving, you need this book-and your grieving friend needs you. (Angela E. Hunt, author of Esther, Royal Beauty and Egypt's Sister)

If you are grieving, read this book. If you desire to help someone who is grieving, this book is a great tool, a handbook, a road map that will sharpen your empathy and sympathy skills. (Ginger Wolffis, grief consultant)

Stephanie Grace Whitson is the best-selling author of nearly thirty books. In 1996, she lost her best friend to cancer three days after her own husband was diagnosed with an incurable form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Later that same year, her mother and father died within six weeks of each other. She was widowed in 2001, and this book grew out of her personal grief journey. Stephanie resides in Nebraska and keeps busy writing, speaking, and spoiling her ten grandchildren. Learn more at www.stephaniewhitson.com