Widow to Widow, Genevieve Davis Ginsburg
Widow to Widow, Genevieve Davis Ginsburg
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Widow to Widow
Thoughtful, Practical Ideas for Rebuilding Your Life

Author: Genevieve Davis Ginsburg

Narrator: Romy Nordlinger

Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/17/2015


Synopsis

In this remarkably useful guide, widow, author, and therapist Genevieve Davis Ginsburg, MS, offers fellow widows—as well as their family and friends—sage advice for coping with the loss of a husband. From learning to travel and eat alone to creating new routines to surviving the holidays and anniversaries that reopen emotional wounds, Widow to Widow walks listeners through the challenges of widowhood and encourages them on their path to building a new life.

About Genevieve Davis Ginsburg

The late Genevieve Davis Ginsburg, MS, founded Widowed to Widowed Services, a support group in Tucson, Arizona. The author of Widow to Widow: Thoughtful, Practical Ideas for Rebuilding Your Life, she was also a recipient of the 1981 Jefferson Award for public service and community leadership and the Arizona Governor's Award for her social service. She died in 1996, surviving her husband by twenty-one years.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bethany on February 18, 2013

I found this book to be incredibly helpful, when I started reading it about a month after my husband passed away. However, I was twenty-one at the time; and I was just trying to grasp the situation I had found myself in. I was lost, confused and felt utterly helpless as I tried to make sense of ever......more

Goodreads review by Julie on April 26, 2009

Shallow. The tips are very simplistic, though I suppose they are the "practical" tips the title claims. I'm not the sort of widow this book is geared toward. I was already the major decision maker and money earner. This seems slightly condescending, though other than being a widow I'm not in the tar......more

Goodreads review by Laurie on November 07, 2022

After my husband died, people handed me all sorts of books on grief, and although good, this was one that was truly helpful to me. Yes, it touches on grieving, but it's more practical, and helps with the day to day necessities of functioning, and knowing you're not going crazy! .......more

Goodreads review by Candace on February 28, 2021

I found this book to be perfect for me as I am a practical person and the author gave me good practical advice I could put into use right away. I read another "widow" book and it was just full of sad stories of other widows. I didn't need that. I am sad enough. I needed advice on how to rebuild my l......more

Goodreads review by MaryLee on January 26, 2015

Widowed two years when I read this, I found Ms. Ginsburg's suggestions very helpful. I also found that she covered territory that none of the other books on bereavement I read had touched on. Very worthwhile.......more