How to Survive the Worst That Can Happen: A Parent's Step by Step Guide to Healing After the Loss of a Child - Softcover

Peckinpah, Sandy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452582262 ISBN 13: 9781452582269

Publisher: BalboaPress, 2014

Synopsis

Foreword written by Melissa Gilbert, actress and author
Sandy Peckinpah's sixteen-year old son woke up with a fever and was dead the next morning of bacterial meningitis... her life changed forever.
She found herself in the depths of unimaginable despair. Then, someone gave her a journal, and writing opened her journey of self-discovery in learning how to live life without her beautiful child. Words illuminated her path of discovery and she began to document the things that helped her, and others like her, to find resilience.
This is a practical, inspirational guide to coping with the many facets of bereavement; learning how to talk about your loss, the aftermath of sorrow, handling fear and anger, helping your living children adjust, strengthening your marriage, experiencing miracles, and the promise that you will regain a quality of life where you'll feel joy once again.
If you've lost a child or know someone who has, Sandy's story is one you'll relate to and find comfort in knowing you're not alone.

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From the Back Cover:

Sandy Peckinpah's sixteen-year old son woke up with a fever and was dead the next morning of bacterial meningitis...  her life changed forever.
She found herself in the depths of unimaginable despair. Then, someone gave her a journal, and writing opened her journey of self-discovery in learning how to live life without her beautiful child. Words illuminated her path of discovery and she began to document the things that helped her, and others like her, to find resilience.
This is a practical, inspirational guide to coping with the many facets of bereavement; learning how to talk about your loss, the aftermath of sorrow, handling fear and anger, helping your living children adjust, strengthening your marriage, experiencing miracles, and the promise that you will regain a quality of life where you'll feel joy once again.
If you've lost a child or know someone who has, Sandy's story is one you'll relate to and find comfort in knowing you're not alone.
 
"The profound gift of Sandy's grief over losing her son pours forth in gentle yet focused guidance in this treatise on love and resilience.  She doesn't mince words or sugarcoat the enormity of the task, yet she shows you the way through to a life of renewed faith and happiness. As a psychotherapist who has helped people grieve their losses for over twenty-five years, I see Sandy's book as the most elegant and effective tool a grieving parent could have, along with the human support she so strongly prescribes. By example, Sandy's book shows what one woman can do when she transforms her deepest grief into a gift that shows others how to love again."
--Kathleen Hanagan, LCSW
"This book is such an amazing tool and gift to parents who are suffering the loss of a child. Most of what Sandy learned, as she and her family walked through it, is right here on these pages. This is not simply a narrative of her story; it's a step-by-step way that you can participate in your own healing. My hope for you is that this book will guide you through, to that place of peace."
 
--Melissa Gilbert
Mother, Wife, Actress, Author

About the Author:

Sandy Peckinpah discovered the power in storytelling when she was inspired to write her first book after her daughter was born with a facial defect, a cleft. Rosey the Imperfect Angel was a magical fairy tale that focused on the beauty of imperfection. The fairy tale was recorded as a CD, produced by Tony Award Winner, Michael Alden and starred the voice of actress and former SAG President, Melissa Gilbert (best known for "Little House on the Prairie" The CD made it all the way to the Grammy Ballot in 2009. Her second book, Chester the Imperfect All Star, followed with the same media attention. Her fairy tales continue to be used in schools, hospitals, and clinics to raise awareness and help children with self-esteem. After the death of her child, Sandy's passion was to write a book that could help parents through such a devastating loss. In addition to writing, she works as a real estate agent and also co-hosts a weekly radio show, "Passion by Design" on AM Talk Radio. She focuses on projects that make a difference in people's lives. Sandy lives in sunny Southern California with her husband and children.

About this edition

• Publisher: BalboaPress
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1452582262
• ISBN 13: 9781452582269
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168