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    My Friend Is Struggling With Grief and I Want to Help
    My Friend Is Struggling With Grief and I Want to Help
    My Friend Is Struggling With Grief and I Want to Help
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    My Friend Is Struggling With Grief and I Want to Help

    By Gerald H. Pilj

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    Most of us don’t deal with grief very often. Subsequently, when a friend comes face to face with pain, we don’t know what to say or do. In My Friend is Struggling with Grief, and I Want to Help, author Gerald H. Pilj provides insight into the grieving process, offers lessons, and presents ideas on how to help another person handle their distress.

    Based on his personal experiences of the death of his youngest son at age three, Pilj explores a variety of topics related to grieving, including:

    My friend’s grief is my grief, too.
    Cry as often as necessary; don’t bottle it up.
    It helps to have someone to cry with.
    Gift giving may be important.
    Faith plays a role in grief.
    Don’t forget to live life.

    Filled with valuable and heartfelt information, My Friend is Struggling with Grief, and I Want to Help, offers a sensitive approach to understanding grief and living through it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu Publishing Services
    Release dateMar 6, 2015
    ISBN9781483425450
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      My Friend Is Struggling With Grief and I Want to Help - Gerald H. Pilj

      2015

      Copyright © 2013, 2015 Gerald Harlan Pilj.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted by any means—whether auditory, graphic, mechanical, or electronic—without written permission of both publisher and author, except in the case of brief excerpts used in critical articles and reviews. Unauthorized reproduction of any part of this work is illegal and is punishable by law.

      First edition 2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4834-2546-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4834-2545-0 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2015901269

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 02/20/2015

      Contents

      Introduction

      If I Could Share Just One Thing …

      Who Is This Guy?

      Recognizing My Part in This Play

      The Need to Give a Gift

      What Your Friend Is Going Through

      How Can I Help?

      I Need a Volunteer

      Miscellaneous Topics

      Faith

      A Note from the Wife

      Final Thoughts

      About the Author

      In memory of Giacomo

      I miss you, buddy.

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      Introduction

      How many times in your life have you been exposed to grief? Not sadness, but grief? Think about the people you work with. How many tragic events have happened in the past few years? Probably not many. You’ve heard about things in the news, but how often does grief touch us directly? Not very often. As such, most of us really don’t know how to cope with it and have no idea how to help somebody else who is going through it.

      I wanted to put together a little book, nothing long but something useful, that would help make it easier. That is how this started. I hope you get some value out of how it turned out.

      If I Could Share Just One Thing …

      Dear Reader:

      I want to thank you for spending some time with me today. If it is okay with you, I would like to talk with you. Yes, I realize this is a book, but I am going to make some assumptions about you and about the questions you might be asking, in order for us to have a conversation.

      I am assuming that you picked up this book because you saw the word grief on the cover. Either you or a friend of yours

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