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It had been six months, and I was still feeling pretty lost, and I headed on a long road trip through the American West to think things through.

I was grieving the loss of my father when I stumbled upon this book. By the time of his death in 1999, sales of his popular work, Good Grief, would reach more than 2.4 million copies. Westberg lived in Willowbrook, Illinois toward the end of his life and died in 1999.

This approach is now known as "faith community nursing" (FCN) where there is an intentional integration of the practice of faith with the practice of nursing so that people can achieve wholeness in, with, and through the population which faith community nurses serve. Kellogg Foundation, Westberg launched a parish nurse project in which nurses and others in congregations promoted health, prevented illness, and cared for those in need. In the mid 1980s at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, with support from a grant from the W. He continued this sort of work when in the early 1970s he moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he worked with a team to create several "wholistic health centers" focused on prevention, whole-person care, and the church as a healing community. In Hamma Westberg began what would become the model for a "neighborhood church-based clinic", where physicians, pastoral counselors, nurses, seminarians and medical students and community volunteers provided needed care.

Later he would serve as Professor of Medicine and Religion in the Department of Psychiatry of Baylor College of Medicine, and at Hamma School of Theology now Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Ohio. Later in 1964 he became Dean of institute of Religion at Texas Med Center in Houston providing a graduate program in pastoral care and counseling through a program for seminaries. In 1962 Westberg's interest in the grief process resulted in his writing Good Grief which enjoyed popular success. In 1956 he started a joint appointment in both the Chicago Divinity School and the school of medicine at the University of Chicago. In 1951 Westberg became Chaplain of the University of Chicago Clinics. After that his writing and career focused on a team approach to health care. He served a short time as a parish pastor then became a full time chaplain at Augustana Hospital in Chicago.

Westberg, born in Chicago in 1913, received his bachelor's from Augustana College in 1935, and later graduated from Augustana Theological Seminary.