When Their World Stops: The Essential Guide to TRULY Helping Anyone In Grief - Softcover

Lockmyer, Anne-Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996802428 ISBN 13: 9780996802420

Publisher: Joseph Allen Press, 2018

Synopsis

Everything needed to understand and help someone who is grieving. 8-time award-winning book, When Their World Stops, is a practical guidebook packed with all you need to increase your confidence and take the awkwardness out of responding to someone devastated by grief.

Great for churches, hospice, counselors or anyone who wants to understand and support the grieving. Share at funerals or memorial services so friends know how to help. If you are the one grieving, you may see yourself, as you read, and find comfort that what you are feeling is appropriate and normal.

Award-winning author, grief specialist, founder of The Grief and Trauma Healing Network, co-creator of MyGriefCare.com and widow, Anne-Marie Lockmyer, gives you a look inside the heart and mind of a person brokenhearted by the loss of a loved one.

You can feel inadequate and helpless to support someone grieving. You don’t like to see them hurting yet don’t have a clue what to do - so you do nothing - or the wrong thing.

When Their World Stops will equip you to:

• Appreciate what they are experiencing and feeling
• Say and do the right things and avoid doing the wrong things
• Support them with appropriate actions and gifts
• Write a sympathy card from the heart
• Encourage them during the holidays and other tough days
• Remember key dates that may be difficult for them
• Understand their specific type of loss such as a parent, spouse, child, sibling, miscarriage, stillborn or suicide.

You can quickly scan the key points or dive deeper. You will enter this book awkward and unsure. You will emerge a confident, loving and creative advocate for your grieving friend.

Make a difference! This book will show you how.

About this title

About the Author

Anne-Marie Lockmyer is an award-winning author, speaker, Advanced Grief Recovery and Loss Specialist and Founder of the Grief and Trauma Healing Network. Her work has appeared in notable media outlets such as Rolling Stone, LA Wave and Billboard. She has been a featured speaker at multiple venues. She specializes in taking others through the journey of recovery - to be free from the pain of grief and loss. As a widow who suffered a devastating loss herself, Anne-Marie is passionate to dispel the myths of grief and bring hope, encouragement, and resources to those suffering from grief and those that care for them and want to help. Her mission is to bring individuals hope in the midst of pain and provide tools that help people experience joy in their lives once again. Anne-Marie lives in Anaheim, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Joseph Allen Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0996802428
• ISBN 13: 9780996802420
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 96