How to Care For and Support the Grieving Heart (Good Grief Series Book 3)

Grief is a five-letter word that evokes four-letter words. It hurts! And it changes everything. This book helps the grieving realize their feelings are normal, and it helps those who care about grieving people understand what they're going through and know how to help them.
This book is a gift that is going to be helpful to so many!

"True understanding comes from listening to another's heart and accepting what's found there." ~ Gary Roe

Going through your own grief is tough and losing people you love is never easy. So how do you help friends and family in your life when they are grieving over their loses?

This book teaches you how to be a "safe person" and gives practical ideas how you can help someone with a broken heart. This book explains what it feels like to lose a loved one, whether this loss is because of death or a broken relationship. This made sense to me: "Losing a loved one is painful and traumatic...we can lose them in an instant, or we can lose them over time."

So this is not really a book for the person who is grieving it is for the person who is willing to just be there and be a friend. So many people feel abandoned in their grief, so having a friend who cares, really counts.

~The Rebecca Review

This phenomenal piece of literature is difficult to categorize and leaves me unsure as to exactly how to describe it. It is part self-help book and part lifeline, it is a psychologically based introspective to help you cope with tremendous grief, yet it is in a “plain brown wrapper” presented in laymen’s terms. It has a soothing and reassuring religious appeal to believers, yet is presented in such a manner that I personally believe that it could reach even the staunchest of Atheists. There is the obvious component of dealing with the grief of losing a loved one, yet there is a message pertaining to life in general that makes it a MUST READ for anyone/everyone. The main target audience seems to be the grieving soul dealing with the loss of a beloved one, obviously and I find it difficult to articulate just how spectacularly this amazing, soothing, comforting and reassuring gift of love from author Gary Roe conveys his message via this latest book.

I have long been a fan of Gary Roe and his amazing work, both in literature and his strong presence online. I have read some of his other work and “PLEASE BE PATIENT, I’M GRIEVING” is a brilliant, insightful and compassionate addition to his library of works. This amazing man, wow, I am literally lost as to HOW I could possibly describe not only his work, but he himself. He embodies love and compassion, I had read one of his earlier books a couple of years ago and it had his e-mail address to write to him, not only as a fan, but as a grieving soul in need; I did and imagine my great dismay when he not only ANSWERED me (and not some canned auto-response), but he followed up and check in on me for about a year or so until he was certain all was well. That, my friends, is the quality of human soul poured onto the pages of this book. He is a HUMAN, humane in the best sense of the word and a shining example of humanity.

I strongly urge you to read this newest compassionate and kindhearted outreach from Gary Roe, if you are hurting or suffering the weight of loss of loved ones; it is my utmost conviction that you could find no one on earth better equipped, more interested and genuinely more concerned with helping you learn to walk through life embracing the memories of your loved ones without carrying the burdens of pain brought on by their loss—I am confident in saying that this is the best roadmap you could carry in navigating the journey of coping with both life and loss.

Gary Roe’s newest book: Please Be Patient, I’m Grieving is a blessing for everyone! It is a blessing for those who are grieving because it gives them a voice to explain to others how they are feeling and how to help them. It is a blessing for those who want to help. It gives an understanding to what is going on inside a grieving person’s heart. I really liked the chapter that talked about how to be a Safe Person to the individual who is grieving. As you read this book, you can just feel how much care, wisdom, personal experience, and love went into this book. You can feel how much the author cares and wants to help those who are hurting and those who want to help the hurting. For me personally, as I read the book it brought some understanding to how I was feeling during the loss of my husband. It gave me a sense of peace..someone understands. This book is a blessing for those who are grieving and those who want to help someone who is grieving. <3

Gary Roe’s newest book: Please Be Patient, I’m Grieving is a blessing for everyone! It is a blessing for those who are grieving because it gives them a voice to explain to others how they are feeling and how to help them. It is a blessing for those who want to help. It gives an understanding to what is going on inside a grieving person’s heart. I really liked the chapter that talked about how to be a Safe Person to the individual who is grieving. As you read this book, you can just feel how much care, wisdom, personal experience, and love went into this book. You can feel how much the author cares and wants to help those who are hurting and those who want to help the hurting. For me personally, as I read the book it brought some understanding to how I was feeling during the loss of my husband. It gave me a sense of peace..someone understands. This book is a blessing for those who are grieving and those who want to help someone who is grieving. <3

This is a wonderful book for those grieving or those that care for someone going through the grieving process. Everyone should read this book and share it with their loved ones. It is hard enough to go through the grieving process without also having to deal with people who don't or won't understand what you are going through. This book can help all of us to be more compassionate and caring to others. If you get a chance - read this book and pass it on to everyone you love and care about.

The book not only relates to someone in the direct line of grieving but also those around them. It helps outsiders better understand how the greiving person feels. The author explains how you can help as a friend or loved one to walk alongside someone who is greiving in ways that will comfort and allow the greiving person to walk their own steps in their own way. The book is an easy yet impactful read with short chapters that cause you to think how you can apply the material. The study guide at the end of the book provides a useful tool for discussion of the material perfect for a small group setting.

Gary has capture what the grieving experience in Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving, and has normalized that which has been Taboo for so many of us for so long, when in fact it is what is indeed need to recognize as grieving processes. What an amazing comfort to the one grieving, and manual to the support person, whose view and perspective may be shifted as they become enlightened. https://www.the store.com/gp/product/1530713048/ref=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_0 Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving: How to Care For and Support the Grieving Heart (Good Grief Series) (Volume 3)

Gary Roe is a wonderful author and this book, Please Be Patient I am Grieving, is a very well thought out book to help those who care for the grieving person better understand and to help the one who is going through the dark valley of grief. This journey of grief we are traveling is a rough road but with loved ones near us who understand, it can be smoother and this book explains all the feelings I have been feeling since my husband died.

It was a quick read, informative and encouraging. Truly understanding what we all must face if we continue to love and have relationships. It is a journey. There are triggers every day, and I wonder who I am becoming.

No one quite understands the grieving process until they have endured the grieving process. While people are enduring grief, those around them want to help but just do not know what to say. Gary Roe provides great insight into what the grieving person is undergoing so that those around them can be the most effective in helping them grieve and heal. Another great work from Gary!

Gary Roe has written another book that is helpful to both the person who is grieving as well as those who love and care about someone who is grieving. In this book, his 9 principles are straightforward and helpful. I have read several of Gary's books and all of them have helped me to better understand the grief process and to help me to know that I am not alone and that what I am feeling is a part of the normal process.

This book is a fantastic resource for my clients! I love that it's an easy read, that it fits for any person (regardless of what/who they're grieving), that it succinctly addresses the key things that the bereaved really need others to understand, that it includes actual thoughts from the grieving, and that it can be used as a launching pad for group discussions. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to better understand and help a grieving loved one or friend.

I love this book for several reasons, because it not only helps the person going through the grieving process but it helps the loved ones, around the person grieving, to know just how to be. One does not have to have any words, just sit with them in the road and be there for them. I wish this book had been around when I lost my first husband back in 1997 and my second husband in 2013. There is not a person on this earth who would not benefit from this book, whether it be you or someone you know. Gary, thank you for having a HUGE heart for helping others....Gayle Rodgers, Bryan, Texas

Very good book, practical advice for someone in the depth of grief. I'm a hospice chaplain and the one disadvantage to most grief book is the length of the chapters, this boom does not have that issue. The chapters are brief but packed with a comforting tone that invites the reader to want to finish. A must have in any hospice program or a grieving household

As a volunteer Stephen Minister who often is called upon to support people facing all kinds of grief producing situations, I found this book filled with wisdom and authority. Thank you, Gary Roe, for helping those of us who volunteer in a helping role to be more compassionate, more understanding, and more grace-filled and grace-giving. A wonderful book that I recommend to anyone seeking to understand the grieving heart.

So many people are grieving the loss of someone they loved. As a woman who lost my husband, the Grief is nearly unbearable. People, including family members, truly don't know how to relate to me anymore. Gary Roe has written several books on Grief and healing. His latest book, Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving, is spot on for assisting the grieving heart, and also for those who want to know how to react to someone who is grieving. I highly recommend this book.

In Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving, Gary Roe writes straight from the heart. He gently made me remember how I felt when I grieved for loved ones, and also how I had always been unsure of myself when it came to knowing how to comfort someone else -- what to say to them or what to do for them. This is the first book by this author that I have read, but it definitely will not be the last. This book is one of those that you keep forever and that you refer to time and time again for guidance.

The simple, straight-forward steps Gary presents in this book will not only encourage those who are grieving but will enable their families and friends to get a glimpse into what the griever lives with day after day. As a grief support group facilitator, and a chaplain this is a book I will turn to often. Thank you Gary!
Margaret Kirk Dth

Great read! I have purchased several of Gary's books and I have never been disappointed. Gary truly knows the grieving heart. Speaking as someone who has suffered several losses over the past several years, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is grieving. It is also a great resource for anyone wishing to help someone who is grieving. Buy the book! You will not be disappointed!

This is an AWESOME book for anyone grieving or anyone who cares about and wants to be there for a person who is grieving. I love how the beginning of a chapter is what a grieving heart might be experiencing and then the next part is how to help and understand someone who is grieving. The book is short and simple. One of the best hours of my life, I spent reading this book.

Finally a book that helps those who are supporting someone who is grieving deeply. In his most recent book, Gary Roe offers a glimpse into the heart of the bereaved and grieving soul. This book confirms for those who are grieving that they are not alone and offers some guuidance for those who are holding and supporting the bereaved.

A profound and powerful book. It is real, relevant and people/user friendly. I didn't have to search for the meaning of words or terms. This book is for anyone grieving and anyone who knows someone is grieving. The principles outlined in the book get straight to the heart of the matter. It will be helpful to many.

It's hard to understand the process a person goes through when grieving for a loved one. This book is a wonderful guide for a person who has lost someone and those close to them. Gary Roe has written another wonderful, insightful book to help those with a broken heart! Read it and pass it along.

If you have lost someone this helps explaining that you are not alone and you are normal in the process-if you know someone who is grieving this is a great book to help understand what they may be going through-

Sooner or later, everyone can use this book. Those who have experienced loss and those around them who want to know how to help. Gary Roe helps us realize that we are not crazy, and we are not alone.

Gary puts into words, what our heart is feeling. I wish I would have had this book when my sweet husband passed away 1 1/2 years ago. However, I am buying several books for friends and family, who still don't understand how I feel.