Another question from GreenLantern

[GreenPartyVoter]

If you are actively dealing with your grief and
mourning, what are your best ways of grieving and coping for them? Do
you read any books on the subject or connect with a counselor,
minister, friend etc. If books, which do you like best?

(Note: I am posting for GL because he got TSed several months ago. If you want to get in touch with him, you can reach him here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/thought_express/10899.html?mode=reply )

[hermetic]

1. I am reading right now

"A Woman's Guide to Spiritual Renewal" but that might not sound interesting to GL. So here is a link to some very uplifting writing and the book "Pronoia"

<snip> Let me remind you who you really are: You’re an immortal freedom fighter in service to divine love. You have temporarily taken on the form of a human being, suffering amnesia about your true origins, in order to liberate all sentient creatures from suffering and help them claim the ecstatic awareness that is their birthright. <\snip>

http://www.freewillastrology.com/beauty/prayer.html

[hermetic]

2. Here's another book

called "Men and Grief: a guide for men surviving the loss of a loved one" Author C. Staudacher, New Harbinger Press

[Dora]

3. A book that helped my mother, and me too

When Things Fall Apart, by Pema Chodron

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1570621608/ref=pd_sxp_f/102-1898460-5293765?v=glance&s=books

Some may be put off by the buddhist label on the book, but the author has wise and useful things to share.

It's a very good books for those who feel knocked up against the wall of their grief and sorrow.

[livetohike]

4. "On Death and Dying" by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

and I think I should go reread it myself. I read it about 25 years ago or so.