When Your Soulmate Dies: A Guide to Healing Through Heroic Mourning

I really didn't care for the book. It is really for a person in the process of or has just lost their loved one. The book is goes into what they wshoŕuld be feeling and that it is OK. Well, çfof course it is OK to feel how you feel. But the book does not go in to how really painful this loss is. It never really goes away, the pain just eases. After 12 years I still cry at times and miss my true love. But I know some day we'll be together again. For now life goes on. I think I was looking for a book that was on a deeper level from someone who's been there. Now this book maybe very helpful for some but each person grieves differently. I will never stop missing my one true love. The higher you fly, the longer you fall.

I truly enjoyed reading this book when losing my soulmate to death. In my personal preference I didn’t want to do counseling right away and rather cope and read about it for my own comfort of trying to get myself out there and seek for the right understanding counselor for me. I loved reading about how I can heal and overcome the loss and pain within. This book allowed me to read along at my pace vs the pace of others would want you to go without understanding your intense emotions and feelings of your lost soulmate. This book helped me guide myself within my grieving process and also taught me heroic ways to mourn in healthy matters of this tragic lost. I am beyond grateful and thankful for this book written. It helped me through my journey of loving and finding myself again how my soulmate would want me to, and continue to express that love to them, myself and others. Thank you!

Losing a soulmate is very special, tragically so. I was married 47 years. We got engaged on thi first date during Mardi Gras. No, we weren’t drinking. On 30 December Virginia was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer that had spread to the liver, lungs and kidney. She died 24 days later while my son and I held her. Other medical conditions masked the symptoms..,we were totally clueless. The last 8 days she was paralyzed by strokes and unable to talk.I had no role model for this kind of grief. When I lost parents and friends, my grief was barely noticeable compared to this. This book helped to to understand what I am going through. It is hugely beneficial. I was desperate to remember everything from our life together....something called “linking.” I also realized that subconsciously I may have been trying to ensure I’d never forget her. These are two insights of many found in this book.I did my doctoral work in ethnography and cultural sociology. The author does a good job conducting and presenting his research. First rate.By the book. Get a grief counselor if you can and certainly joint a grief support group.

I liked this book. It helps me navigate my spouses death.

I’m so grateful that I found this book, because I’m not good at putting my feelings into words and this book does it for me perfectly.I’ve ordered several books on grief, and this one brings me THE MOST comfort, because I feel like it KNOWS what I truly lost.My husband of 12 years passed away suddenly, four months ago. Since his passing, well-meaning family, friends, and grief counselors have made their attempts to comfort me or compare their experience with loss and grief to mine. Try as they might, they just don’t get it.My husband was my everything! I often tell people that I lost 20 people the day he died (best friend, confidant, lover, co-parent, etc). This book may not pick me up on my lowest of days, but it does feed the part of me that craves the acknowledgment that what I had was real and that I was fortunate enough to have found it. Therefore, my grief is as bad as I know it is and that I’m not going crazy.Other books that have helped me are “Comfort for the Grieving Spouse’s Heart,” “It’s OK That You’re Not OK,” and “The Grief Recovery Handbook.”

My soulmate/lover/partner and almost constant companion of the past 20 years died suddenly and unexpectedly 51 days ago. (The day before he told me how good he felt.) I found this book and author via the "resources" page on my local funeral home.I'm not a Christian or Jewish, and this book had too many examples of grieving Christ-followers in it for me. I would have appreciated more followers of other religions.I read the entire book, but didn't do any of the exercises. I'm journaling daily anyway - I'm a writer.I got a message from the Universe through a young former colleague who told me that The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (which I'd bought him) was the most important boy he'd read - I took that as a message to get mine out and re-read it. THAT has been very helpful, as have the books Declutter Your Mind by SJ Scott and Barrie Davenport, as well as a daily meditation book by Melody Beattie, Journey to the Heart.I often find it most helpful to just open a book randomly to see what message you need to hear at that moment. These have worked for me. But I am also reading the first two I mentioned cover to cover.Maybe it's too soon for me to appreciate When Your Soulmate Dies, so I may come back to it in a couple of months (something he suggests early on in the book).At any rate, I've been shoved into a new life now, one without the love of my life, and I have to go on because he's clearly told me he wants me to. Otherwise I'd be going after him. Instead I have to find a way to create a new life. (I believe in reincarnation, and knew my love in past lives. I just hope that we can learn lessons from this one and do even better next time.)

The book helped me understand the profound sense of loss I have been carrying around since my beloved soul mate died. It also has given me hope that some day I too will find myself again, and with the Grace of God that I can lead a full and more joyfully life once more.

I plan and anticipate going back and reading this book and it will help me to heroically mourn. Thank you

A lot of the content assumes that we believe in the afterlife. I do not so i find this less relevant than some self-help books

After the sudden death of my husband, this book has given me great comfort, and an inner peace

I basically cried through the whole book it was so relevant to what I felt and still feel after losing my soulmate

I lost my soulmate after a long illness and this book has given me insight and comfort on my grieving journey.