You Can Heal Your Heart Book Review

I am participating in Hay House Publishing's Book Nook, a free program to read and review books. I received my first e-book a few weeks ago and this is my first review.

In the book You Can Heal Your Heart, grief counseling expert, David Kessler, and author and founder of Hay House Publishing, Louise L. Hay, collaborate on a wonderful book about healing from grief and loss. The book covers many different types of loss... the loss of  loved ones (spouse, lover, parent, child, friend), the loss of a pet, loss from a breakup or divorce, and even other types of loss such as disenfranchised loss, loss in limbo, and complicated loss. The book is full of personal stories of people who have suffered different types of loss and personal affirmations and exercises to help heal a grieving heart.

I chose this book to review because I recently lost my dear mother after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer and I wanted to find peace and healing during the grief process. This book was very helpful with assisting me to move forward in my life. I found the personal stories that were included very touching and the positive affirmations and exercises to be of great comfort to me. I also found the section about loss after infertility and miscarriage to be extremely helpful as well. I suffered through years of infertility and numerous miscarriages before I finally had my two precious children, and I'm not sure I ever fully processed the grief I felt during that experience in my life. This book helped me deal not only with the loss of my mother, but also helped heal the unexpressed and often disenfranchised loss of infertility and miscarriage.

I love several of the quotes from the book:

"Grief is as unique as a fingerprint."

"Grief is the window that provides the opportunity to examine your primal thinking about relationships."

"We are faced with a choice when we wake up in the morning: Will we choose to live our lives in fear or in faith? Then we step out into the world where good and evil do battle every day. It is the charge of each one of us to bring light and love into the world. and we achieve this through every thought and interaction we have on a daily basis."

I would highly recommend this book to anyone experiencing any type of loss of in their life...past or present. This book helped me to remember that "Love is eternal and is a bond that can't be severed....even in death."  You Can Heal Your Heart teaches us a new way of thinking about loss and encourages us to change every thought into a loving one, each and every day!

FTC Disclosure:  I received this book for free from Hay House Publishing for review purposes. The opinion in this review is unbiased and reflects my honest judgment of the product and I was not financially compensated for this review.