Review of Living Forward After Loss
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Review of Living Forward After Loss
[Following is a volunteer review of "Living Forward After Loss" by Kathleen Ho.]
Losing your loved one is a devastating experience and often it feels like the end of the world for the person who is left behind. Author Kathleen Ho felt the same after losing her husband David to a massive stroke. In this book, Living Forward After Loss: Rebuilding Your Life After Losing Your Life Partner, Ho shares her journey of how from thinking of dying herself in grief, to coming to understand that life is worth living and worth achieving your goal, she rebuilds her life after that heartbreaking loss. Through her personal experience, she has offered her own advice and strategies to her readers that life can be beautiful and joyful again.
There are several positive aspects of the book that I admired. Ho has shared her personal journey to encourage people to find their happiness again after losing their spouse, to love again and this encouragement can be seen throughout the book. I loved how she has also tried to support her encouragement with reference to other people's stories, both who tried to find their happiness or the ones who chose to dwell in their grieves and missed on their lives. The brief reference to other people's stories, their situation eventually along with every aspect of her own journey, makes the book interesting. Ho has very intently written every detail, every turmoil that she faced after her husband's death and how she eventually accepted that she could be happy again. She has greatly emphasised on being optimistic, being inclusive, thinking not only about oneself but of those around you who love you. Her journey of re-entry in social life and her gradual acceptance of life around her along with acknowledgement of her grief and navigating through it is truly admirable. Ho has tried her level best to detail everything for her readers who are seeking help and going through the same turmoil to actually benefit from her book and that shows in the way she has composed the book with content divided in specific chapters and topics well researched. At the end of every chapter there is a section of questions that are left unanswered for you to pause and reflect upon it. I found this very unique and helpful. I also liked the fact that since, her husband had died of a stroke, Ho devoted herself to educating people about high blood pressure and stroke which is a great initiative from her. In the end of the book She also encourages people to find love again, and to find a loving life partner again which is great.
What I don't like about the book is that it gets repetitive, has blandness to it and with more than ten errors within the first half of the book, it clearly implies that it hass not been professionally edited. Ho has repeatedly mentioned several times that she was married to David for ten long years and they loved each other unconditionally. Ho has tried her best but has fallen short of putting her advice well articulated. Each chapter starts with a quote which sometimes is just opposite of the content of the chapter itself which is just disappointing and doesn't support the cause of the chapter.
This could have been a great memoir and a self help book had it been well edited and well put together, so I give it 2 out of 4 stars.
Overall this book has great advice and ideas to overcome loss and face the world again so I recommend it to people who have lost their partner and seeking help, to give this book a chance, they might benefit from it.
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Living Forward After Loss
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Losing your loved one is a devastating experience and often it feels like the end of the world for the person who is left behind. Author Kathleen Ho felt the same after losing her husband David to a massive stroke. In this book, Living Forward After Loss: Rebuilding Your Life After Losing Your Life Partner, Ho shares her journey of how from thinking of dying herself in grief, to coming to understand that life is worth living and worth achieving your goal, she rebuilds her life after that heartbreaking loss. Through her personal experience, she has offered her own advice and strategies to her readers that life can be beautiful and joyful again.
There are several positive aspects of the book that I admired. Ho has shared her personal journey to encourage people to find their happiness again after losing their spouse, to love again and this encouragement can be seen throughout the book. I loved how she has also tried to support her encouragement with reference to other people's stories, both who tried to find their happiness or the ones who chose to dwell in their grieves and missed on their lives. The brief reference to other people's stories, their situation eventually along with every aspect of her own journey, makes the book interesting. Ho has very intently written every detail, every turmoil that she faced after her husband's death and how she eventually accepted that she could be happy again. She has greatly emphasised on being optimistic, being inclusive, thinking not only about oneself but of those around you who love you. Her journey of re-entry in social life and her gradual acceptance of life around her along with acknowledgement of her grief and navigating through it is truly admirable. Ho has tried her level best to detail everything for her readers who are seeking help and going through the same turmoil to actually benefit from her book and that shows in the way she has composed the book with content divided in specific chapters and topics well researched. At the end of every chapter there is a section of questions that are left unanswered for you to pause and reflect upon it. I found this very unique and helpful. I also liked the fact that since, her husband had died of a stroke, Ho devoted herself to educating people about high blood pressure and stroke which is a great initiative from her. In the end of the book She also encourages people to find love again, and to find a loving life partner again which is great.
What I don't like about the book is that it gets repetitive, has blandness to it and with more than ten errors within the first half of the book, it clearly implies that it hass not been professionally edited. Ho has repeatedly mentioned several times that she was married to David for ten long years and they loved each other unconditionally. Ho has tried her best but has fallen short of putting her advice well articulated. Each chapter starts with a quote which sometimes is just opposite of the content of the chapter itself which is just disappointing and doesn't support the cause of the chapter.
This could have been a great memoir and a self help book had it been well edited and well put together, so I give it 2 out of 4 stars.
Overall this book has great advice and ideas to overcome loss and face the world again so I recommend it to people who have lost their partner and seeking help, to give this book a chance, they might benefit from it.
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Living Forward After Loss
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