How Can I Help?: Your Go-to Guide For Helping Loved Ones Through Life's Difficulties - Paperback

by Sherrie Dunlevy (Author)

Your Go-to Guide for Helping Loved Ones through Life's Difficulties

When tragedy strikes someone you love, you will have to decide what kind of friend you will be: one who is there every step of the way or one who looks the other way. The tips and suggestions offered in this book are some of the most helpful you'll find anywhere. That's because the answers come from people who have actually gone through very difficult experiences. They have suffered the loss of children, spouses, parents, and siblings. They have been diagnosed with chronic and terminal illnesses. They have lost jobs, gotten divorced, or survived sudden changes in their lives due to accidents, crime, or natural disasters.
If you really feel a calling to help someone in need but are at a loss for what to do, or you're afraid that what you do or say might somehow be wrong-causing them to feel worse than what they're already feeling-this book was written for you!

"After reading How Can I Help?, I knew exactly what to say to someone who unexpectedly lost her best friend after a seventy-year relationship. Thank you, Sherrie, for showing us how to support others in the simplest, kindest way possible. Your words are timely and important."
-Jennifer Read Hawthorne, coauthor, #1 New York Times best sellers Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul

Sherrie Dunlevy's guide for helping others is remarkable for its clarity, good advice, and common sense. This book will change the way I deal with such situations in the future."
-William Neal, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics, West Virginia University, and Past National Chair, Children's Miracle Network

"After decades of interviewing hundreds of authors, I know the two ingredients that make the best 'help' books: personal passion and simplicity. Sherrie Dunlevy brings both to How I Can Help?"
-Howard Monroe, Watchdog Radio Network

Author Biography

In "How Can I Help? Your Go-to Guide for Helping Loved Ones through Life's Difficulties," author Sherrie Dunlevy discovers some of the best ways to assist those suffering a loss. Whether it's a death, divorce, a loss of health or even a loss of job, this book provides the reader with many things they can do or say to help ease the burden of someone who is going through a rough patch in life. After losing her son in 1999, author Sherrie Dunlevy realized she and her husband were blessed with an outpouring of love and support but they also lost some of their closest friends. After many years of trying to figure out why, she concluded that perhaps they were too scared to reach out thinking they might do or say the wrong thing. "The purpose of this book is to provide suggestions of what you might do or say to help those you love heal," she said. Her background as a former television news anchor, reporter and radio talk show host, (Sherrie McCutcheon) prompted her to ask questions and find out how others were helped in times of trouble. She has collected those tips and phrases and compiled them into her book, "How Can I Help." "My hope," Dunlevy adds, "is to make it as simple as possible to show up in love and support when a friend or family member is most in need. It seems so easy for some, and so scary for others. Now all you have to do is pick something that resonates with your soul, do it and the healing can begin." Dunlevy resides in Wheeling, WV with her husband. She has recently retired from broadcasting, is an entrepreneur, author. and speaker.