How to Survive the Worst That Can Happen: A Parent's Step by Step Guide to Healing After the Loss of a Child by Sandy Peckinpah is a story of grief, healing, and self recovery. Sandy Peckinpah loses her sixteen-year-old son to bacterial meningitis. She finds herself drowned in grief and despair and her life changes forever. She finds herself on the road to recovery when someone introduces her to writing. She discovers the magic of words and their power and it helps her to cope with the loss and live life without her son. The book tells readers how to handle loss, the stages of handling loneliness, and how to talk about your loss.

By sharing her story with readers, the author also shares an important part of her life with them. The book is sensitive and every reader who has undergone loss of a family member has something to gain by reading the author's story. It teaches you to live despite the loss and the author puts it effectively: 'The first step in your grief recovery is to take care of you.' There is a lot of pain, and at the same time wisdom in these pages, and the book speaks about understanding and healing very effectively.

The book can be looked at as a guide, too, because it gives tips on self discovery, handling grief, and suggestions of activities that can take one on a road to self recovery.

How to Survive the Worst That Can Happen: A Parent’s Step by Step Guide to Healing After the Loss of a Child by Sandy Peckinpah is a self-help book aimed at helping parents through their worst nightmare - the loss of a child. Everybody's grief is different but in the end we all go through the same grief stages. Sandy gives you practical step-by-step techniques on how to live through these stages, what to expect, and how to heal. Through different techniques like expressing your feeling through writing, leaning on the love and support of your friends and family, sharing your story and many more, the book shows you how to live through this nightmare and finally move on with life.

How to Survive the Worst That Can Happen is a book that teaches you how to heal after losing a child. Sandy Peckinpah starts the book off with her personal story, her own journey through the loss of her 16-year-old boy and this sets the mood right away for the book and creates that special connection with the reader. It is not about forgetting the past, but about the healing process through accepting the loss and moving on, keeping the memories of your departed child. Sandy's words feel genuine all through the book, probably because she has been there and she is not just writing theories but tackling a topic that is very dear to her heart. It is simply amazing how she handles this very delicate subject in a way that is both sad and comforting; giving you hope that losing your child, as painful as it might be, is not the end of your life. It will hurt like hell and will change your life forever, but you will learn to live again.