This book was well written and had so many good tips. I am currently not going through a grieving process at the moment but I will remember the useful information this book provided me!

This book is okay. I think I may just be hardened though because it felt like just a collection of quotes I can find on fakebook everyday.

Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.

DAISY A DAY: HOPE FOR A GRIEVING HEART
BY: HARRIET HODGSON

WOW, I am the first person to write a review about this inspirational and short book about dealing with grief work after losing many loved ones--one right after another--in my case. I found this book to be helpful as a guide. I also could relate to this author, who has also lost several loved ones close together in time, also.

She says sometimes we get "grief brain". That is explained by easily misplacing things. I did that this Winter when I was in a car accident. I was injured, but not seriously. I was bleeding badly and I was in my neighborhood, when my car skidded into a tree. When I got out and saw my car's front end destroyed--I lost my car keys. I thought for sure I left them in my car. I was in shock. Somehow, I managed to find them. They were missing from where I normally would put them. Luckily I found them. This is what I related to "grief brain".

In 2012, I tragically lost my only sister suddenly and it was not expected. She was my best friend and I probably miss her everyday. She was five years younger than me. I was shocked and still feel a stone in my stomach when I read this book. It has been ten years and it isn't any easier.

In 2015, my mother died of bone cancer which started out as hip pain. It was fast. She died in a matter of months. It was difficult but close to my loss of my sister.

In 2018, my father died of Stage 4 lung cancer that spread to his bones and although I had anticipated both of my parents dying, I miss him still and I wasn't prepared for his death. The author mentions "anticipatory grief" in this book. I don't know if one is ever fully prepared for the death of a family member even though you expect them to die. I think that it is easier to grieve when you know that you will inevitably lose your parents. Not so much with a younger sibling.

This book has many helpful tips. They are broken up into small chunks of information.

She speaks of writing your loved one a letter saying goodbye if you didn't get that chance and saving it. I thought that is helpful.

She speaks of people who can't handle grief with people whom they know that just lost a loved one. She saw someone in a supermarket that she knew who turned their shopping cart around and walked in the opposite direction. (Brutal!)

A Certified Grief Counselor can help you to move forward she explains. I will recommend this book to those who have experienced a sudden loss of a loved one. Keeping a gratitude journal or just a plain journal can be an inexpensive form of therapy. Joining a Grief Support group and listening or making friends with a widow or widower and asking how they cope. Going for a fifteen minute walk. Spending time outside or sitting in the sun.

Publication Date: May 3, 2022

Thank you to Net Galley, Harriet Hodgson and BOB Publishing-WriteLife Publishing for generously sharing my ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review. All opinions are my own.

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