It was compiled from the six spiral notebooks filled with issues I had dealt with after Joe died. This book is completely personal. After Your Spouse Dies is entirely different. It is as if I were sitting with the person whose loved one has died, in their kitchen, and talking over a cup of coffee. Here are some things you may want to do, when you are able.
Healing requires action.
The person in grief needs to take control, beginning in tiny ways, as soon as possible. For one thing, writing helps you to be clear about your feelings and to make sense of what is happening. A journal is also proof of survival. However, you can only encourage, not force, people in grief to write. Those who choose not to write can read what others have written, then think and feel inside themselves.