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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 recovery specialist, founder of The Grief and Trauma Healing Network 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.
My Book
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 recovery specialist, founder of The Grief and Trauma Healing Network 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.
Eight-Time Award-Winning Book
– Mindy Daffron Crisis Team Manager, Trauma Intervention Program
Reviews
Wayne Fortin, Founder . Trauma Intervention Programs Inc
This incredibly useful book helps you understand what to say (and avoid) when offering condolences
If you’ve ever been caught unaware of what to do or say when a family member, friend, colleague or acquaintance passed away, Anne-Marie Lockmyer’s When Their World Stops is the book for you. Lockmyer gives the reader heartfelt, personal insight into the grief, disbelief and confusion of the sudden death of her husband, and the ups and downs of subsequent months and years – you’ll find out why the second is often more difficult than the first – of mourning and emotional healing. This incredibly useful book helps you understand what to say (and avoid) when offering condolences, how to provide much-needed assistance during the blur of funeral arrangements and early days of grief, and, perhaps most importantly, how to remain a steadfast presence in the bereaved one’s life as they forge a new life without their loved one. You’ll want to keep this valuable book on hand, ready to consult or share as the need unfortunately arises.
Quick, easy read filled with helpful insights and perspectives
This is a quick, easy read filled with helpful insights and perspectives. I appreciate that Anne-Marie recognizes there isn’t a one-size-fits-all formula that applies to everyone, but she offers plenty of ideas on how to avoid offending and find out what will help your grieving friend the most.