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The mourning process provides relief and healing

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Help in the mourning offers comfort

By Valerie McCullough, Loveland Reporter-Herald

March 30, 2017

“Since Bill’s death in late January, I’ve had three grief counseling sessions.

I feel fortunate that Pathways Hospice offers these sessions for families of their deceased patients.

I started grief counseling about three weeks after Bill died.

One of the odd things about being in counseling is I think I’m doing ‘just fine’ as I head into the session. ‘I don’t really need to be in counseling,’ I say to myself.

As the counselor and I seat ourselves comfortably in her office, we exchange pleasantries. After a few minutes, she may ask something like, ‘How are things going?’

Then I begin to talk about what’s in my heart and mind.

During my first two sessions, I recounted the days in the hospital just before Bill’s death and then the death itself — and tears flowed.”

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Fredrik Backman’s book “A Man Called Ove” now a must see movie

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Fredrik BackmanI watched this wonderful thought-provoking movie Saturday night.  I highly recommend it!  You will laugh out loud, cry and smile!  Ove has a big heart, literally.  It is a must see, despite the subtitles.

“Stepping from the pages of Fredrik Backman’s international best-selling novel, Ove is the quintessential grumpy old man next door, with strict principles and a short fuse. Still grieving his late wife, Ove has largely given up on life until a boisterous young family moves in next door and forces him out of his shell in this heartwarming tale that reminds us that life is sweeter when it’s shared. [Subtitles available]” –from Amazon.com.

I haven’t read any of Fredrik Backman’s books yet, but I will now after experiencing the movie.  I checked my neighboring library catalogs online to see if they had copies.  They did have several of his books but all of them have over 30 holds each.  Nearly 11,000 people left reviews on Amazon.com about the book A Man Called Ove; 75 percent gave it 5 stars!  I can’t wait to check it out from the library so I’ll order a couple of his books from Amazon.com.

The movie is available on Netflix and streaming on Amazon video.  I watched it on Xfinity cable for $4.99.

I’d love to know your thoughts about the book or movie.  Leave me a comment.

From Simon & Schuster:  “Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, as well as a novella, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer. His books are published in more than thirty-five countries. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children.”