Seven Choices: Finding Daylight after Loss Shatters Your World

As seen in the PBS documentary The Challenge of Grief. “A highly original and meaningful approach to the grieving process.” —Psychology Today

Inspiring, profound, intimate, and moving, this updated edition of the classic self-help book brings solace, hope, and advice to anyone who has suffered loss.

Everyone experiences grief, but few books offer real help with the debilitating emotions of bereavement. Now, an internationally respected authority on personal change maps the terrain between life as it was and life as it can be. Readers can move at their own pace through the seven distinct phases of loss and can work towards a stronger, more balanced self. The author's own story of the loss of a young husband, combined with the tales of dozens of individuals, and the most recent research on coping with loss, helps readers to become happier, healthier, and wiser beings.

This book was used by volunteers working with victims’ families after 9/eleven.

“One of the best books ever written on grief and mourning.” —Value & Visions, U.S. Cultural Information Service

“This is the most empowering book I have ever used in working with grieving people; and I have worked with many.” —Bill Moore, National Trainer, AARP Widowed Persons Services

“Compelling substance . . . a gifted writer . . . Elizabeth Neeld clearly meets Samuel Johnson’s first criterion for genius.” —The Washington Post

“Sound advice on how to adjust to change and form new life patterns and human bonds.” —Publishers Weekly

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Release date

Ebook: 8 April 2025