Comfort for the Grieving Spouse's Heart

Hope and Healing After Losing Your Partner

By: Gary Roe

Narrated by: Gary Roe

Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

This loss changes everything...

The loss of a life partner can be traumatic. Oblivious to our suffering, the world around us speeds on as if nothing happened. Stunned, shocked, sad, confused, and angry, we blink in disbelief. Our hearts are broken. Our souls shake. We look for comfort. Our broken, grieving hearts need it to survive.

Multiple award-winning author, hospice chaplain, and grief counselor Gary Roe is a trusted voice who has been helping wounded, grieving hearts find hope and healing for more than three decades. Authored with heartfelt compassion, this warm, easy-to-listen, and practical book acts like a caring conversation with a friend and will become a comforting companion as you navigate the turbulent waters of grief.

Gary’s desire is to meet you in your grief and walk with you there. Composed of brief chapters, Comfort for the Grieving Spouse's Heart is designed to be listened to one chapter per day, giving you bite-sized bits of comfort, encouragement, and healing over a period of time. You do not have to listen to it this way, of course. We all grieve differently. Listen to it in the way that is most natural for you.

In Comfort for the Grieving Spouse's Heart, you will discover how to:

• Process complicated grief emotions (sadness, anger, guilt, confusion, anxiety, depression, overwhelm, etc)
• Navigate all the relational changes - feeling alone, misunderstood, isolated, and even rejected by those around you
• Handle the increased stress and uncertainty that this heavy loss can bring
• Deal with physical and mental health issues, illnesses, and new symptoms that often arise
• Take care of yourself through diet, hydration, fitness, and rest
• Deal with a myriad of practical issues (financial challenges, parenting, family activities)
• Handle the intense, deep loneliness that often comes with this loss

You will also find hope in how to:

• Think through the challenging spiritual and faith questions that frequently surface
• Relate well to the people around you - those who are helpful and those who aren't
• Overcome the tendency to run from emotional pain with unhealthy habits or compulsive behaviors
• Deal well with triggers and the grief bursts that will come
• Find the support you need for survival, recovery, and healing (safe people, fellow grievers, counseling, etc)
• Develop a simple, realistic plan for birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays. Use your grief for good - for yourself, your family, and others
• Allow this loss to give you greater perspective and motivate you to live more effectively than ever before
• Make your life count, one day, one moment at a time

Please don’t grieve alone. Let Comfort for the Grieving Spouse's Heart join you on this arduous, tasking journey. Be kind to yourself. Take your heart seriously. Death has invaded, but it doesn't have to win. Listen on. Comfort awaits you in the narration of this book.

©2019 Gary Roe (P)2020 Gary Roe

Must read for the grieving spouse

Gary’s compassion and understanding comes through in this must have resource for those who have a spouse in heaven. I’ve read several of his books and they are my go to resources to help me try to find my way through this life shattering and excruciating anguish since my husband went home to Jesus.

Alone is OK Lonely & Isolated suck

This book brought me to tears today - good, sad, heart aching, and comforting. My husband passed away December 27, 2022. He was 74 at the time I was 65. We were married 14 1/2 years. Together 23 years. I am totally alone in my life now without him. Yes I do have two daughters who are married with families and work full-time. I have a couple of close “safe” friends. However I feel so alone and isolated. I am visually impaired and do not drive. So I truly have no independence in my life. So without my sweet, wonderful Gerry, I feel totally alone and isolated. Listening to this book, helps me not feel so alone in some ways. Many wonderful, good comments and points brought up. Thank you Gary for your heartfelt words, support, and compassion.

A must listen

I missed my husband two months ago. This book helped me understand that I am not alone in my feelings. Loosing him has got to be one of the hardest things I have had to go through. This book gave me a bit of comfort.

His Calming Tone.

I Loved This Book. So Comforting!!! I felt so Relaxed and Calm listening!! 10 out of 10!!!

Did not like it at all, This is for those that have guilt and anger

I’m not angry or have any guilt so this doesn’t apply to me . Not for me:(

awful narration

i just became a widow...single mother to our 5 ur old son on Apr 9.
im trying to find ways to take care of me...
this just sounds like a man complaining...the whole time..no story line..just whining.
and we already know it sucks!! i cant keep listening to this