Bereavement strikes, you are stunned, your world is shaken to its core, someone special is gone.You know that life will never be the same again. You will never be the same again. You try to make sense of it all. But you are overwhelmed by difficult emotions and troubling thoughts. You struggle with what to expect and what to do. You need answers. You need a guide through the unfamiliarterrain of grief. Counselor, psychotherapist and grief specialist Addison Cooper is a highly experienced grief recovery expert who has been helping the bereaved through grief and loss for more than twenty years. Written as a short grief recovery handbook, to help serve as a guide through the grief journey, this easy-to-read, practical book explains just what grief is, why it affects us the way it does and what we can do about it.