After Loss: Hope for Widows, Widowers, and Partners

With After Loss, Linda Donovan provides a compassionate approach to help people rebuild their lives while tending to their grief. Linda experienced grief when she lost her husband to cancer. She offers deep insight from her perspective as a grief-support volunteer for hospice, where she has helped countless widows, widowers, partners, and their families. Linda shares how you can work through your grief and move forward at a comfortable pace. Through her own personal experience, best practices, and creative exercises, she lays out a road map to assist you in adjusting to your new life.

LINDA DONOVAN is a writer, grief-support advocate, and marketing consultant. She has been a professional writer for more than 30 years, and her work has appeared in books, blogs, magazines, newspapers, and other publications. She won a 2014 Writer’s Digest award for a digital version of a self-help book that she coauthored. Linda became involved with her local hospice after experiencing how the hospice team provided so much assistance to her family. She has been leading grief-support groups for Hospice of Santa Cruz County for more than a decade.