The Cards You're Dealt

A Compassionate Grief Recovery Guide & Meditations for Healing After Loss

By: Erin West

Narrated by: Sonia Kallen

Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

How to process and embrace your grief when it threatens to overwhelm you....

In life, there are times when you experience the highest of highs, moments of sheer joy and bliss, where all feels right with the world. But like two sides of the same coin, there are also inevitable times of despair and grief. Love and loss. One cannot exist without the other.

When you love something, you open up your heart to the risk of being hurt - but the risk is worth the reward. Losing what's important to you is a devastating blow. Whether you're grieving a person, pet, relationship, or something else entirely, your feelings are human and completely valid. It can feel like nobody understands what you're going through, and it's true that each person's grief is a totally unique experience. But you're not alone.

Although it may feel like your world has ended, there is still a life ahead of you. Even when you feel you can't go on, you'll surprise yourself with your inner strength. Processing your emotions in the aftermath of a loss is a process that has no timeline. It can feel as though you're left totally adrift, with no guidance on where to begin the healing process. So what can you do?

Opening yourself up to the possibility of healing and taking those first small steps forward marks the beginning of your journey. In The Cards You're Dealt, here is just a fraction of what you will discover:

• Fifty-two guidelines for dealing with grief and processing your emotions
• The important role of friendship in the grieving process - and specific ways you can ask for support and support others in their times of need
• Six unique meditations for dealing with grief and loss
• The best practices for taking care of yourself in a time when that's the last thing on your mind
• The most commonly believed myths about grieving - and how they can actually negatively impact emotional processing after a loss

©2021 Erin West (P)2022 Erin West

grief relief

This book was helpful to me because it validated that my feelings are healthy and ok. I loved the meditations for grief. It was a good reminder that self care and friendships are play a criticle role in the grieving process. Recommend this book for someone struggling with grief.

Helped in a time of need.

Losing something always brings up different emotions, and we all deal with it in different ways. This book will guide you through your own journey and help you process your feelings during grief. My favorite part was the meditations that specifically focused on grieving. The narrator also has an excellent voice for the material- a joy to listen to.

Wonderful tool to help with grief!

What a wonderful book! I'm in my head a lot which is not a good combination while grieving and this book and meditations were able to pull me out of my head and help me naviate my way through some pretty intense feelings. I don't know what I would have done without this audiobook. Highly recommend!

Very very insightful

I don't handle grief very well so picking this up was a good choice. Learning to cope with grief and loss is so crucial, you need to connect with yourself and take that first step to healing to overcome your struggles and endure new challenges. This book helps you with just that by giving guidelines to process your emotions well that are very supportive. Excellent resource to handling a grieving process and finding comfort. Highly recommended!

Confronting grief

As a relatively young widow, grief was something that was foreign to me. Grief is truly an odd thing. Even though it's been 6 years for me, sometime out of nowhere, it just hits me. Again. This book was awesome in helping me really confront my grief. The practical steps within are helpful and timely. My grief was complicated and I was glad to hear that the author addressed this as well. Life is full of loss but this book is a treasure in helping in recovery. Highly recommend this.

loss is hard thank you for this book

My wife lost her mother last year. it's been hard on her, her father and her siblings. I've shared this audible with her. every day gets a little better. thanks for a great book.

Very Supportive Approach

I appreciated the author's upfront acknowledgement that there are no quick fixes to grief, and that it can be a long process to recovery.
This is a great general guide to grief recovery, and is more of a roadmap with a lot of room for individual experiences.
I would recommend this to anyone else looking for all the small things they can to do, so they can start getting their life back and begin healing.

Good book to have!

This is a very interesting book. I learned a lot of things from it. This book will teach you how to overcome feelings of guilt and despair and how to get back to being yourself. You’ll learn the different forms of grief and how to deal with it. You will also learn about self-care and how to add some laughter into your life. And much more… Great book. Get it!

Great Value

I’m the first to admit I do not handle grief with any kind of grace. It gave me so much anxiety I wanted to throw up. After searching for ways to get over these feelings a I knew a death in the family was coming. I found this book and boy am I grateful. It prepared me for my own feelings as well as my family members who needed me to be strong for them. Great read.

I love the compassion

If you or anyone you know are going through a loss, this book is a must! We all know how we are at a loss for words when consoling a friend with a loss. This book gives great insight into showing compassion and conveying the tools to help your friend or loved one through this time of need. Highly recommend!