Appropriate, Timely, and Tasteful
How Can You Laugh at a Time like This?
Additional Thoughts on Laughing
Foreword
Through our Open to Hope Foundation, with the mission of helping people find hope after loss, we have interviewed thousands of bereaved people and read hundreds of grief and recovery books. We have found Allen Klein’s understanding of the grieving process, and his focus on humor as a healing tool, to be a great addition to the recovery literature.
In this heartwarming book, Embracing Life After Loss, Allen gently walks us through the journey of grief, loss, and recovery. He gives us great and much needed advice but also inspires us through quotes and personal experiences. And he doesn’t miss a beat as he covers the major issues facing the bereaved, including self-forgiveness.
Allen guides us through five stages of going from loss to laughter…losing, learning, letting go, living, and finally, laughing. I know that laughter was a healing part of my grieving process after the death of our beloved son Scott, at age seventeen. Allen’s
