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Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas After Your Parent Dies

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas After Your Parent Dies

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

Offering heartfelt and simple advice, this book provides realistic suggestions and relief for an adult child whose parent has died. Practical advice is presented in a one-topic-per-page format that does not overwhelm with psychological language, but provides small, immediate ways to understand and reconcile grief. Some of the action-oriented tips include writing down memories, completing a task or goal left unfinished by your deceased parent, or honoring the parent’s birthday. In addition the common challenges that face grieving adult children, such as helping the surviving parent, resolving sibling conflicts, and legal and financial issues, are addressed clearly and concisely.

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1879651319

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Healing Your Grieving Heart After a Cancer Diagnosis

100 Practical Ideas for Coping, Surviving, and Thriving

By: Alan D Wolfelt,Kirby J. Duvall

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Healing Your Grieving Heart After a Cancer Diagnosis

100 Practical Ideas for Coping, Surviving, and Thriving

By: Alan D Wolfelt,Kirby J. Duvall

According to the American Cancer Society, more than one million people get cancer in the United States each year. The diagnosis is often a major physical, emotional, social, and spiritual blow, capable of shaking patients to their core. This empathetic guide coauthored by cancer survivor Dr. Alan Wolfelt helps individuals understand and cope with the many difficult thoughts and feelings to which a cancer diagnosis can give rise, assisting them as they find ways to experience peace and joy throughout their journey. Among the 100 ideas for surviving and thriving in this book are those that explain the basic principles of grief and mourning and how they apply to a life-altering, life-threatening, or terminal medical diagnosis. Others offer instantaneous, in-the-moment suggestions of things that cancer patients can do immediately in order to express their grief and live with meaning in each moment. This book is a calming companion for people battling cancer and their loved ones.

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161722202X

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The Mourner's Book of Faith

30 Days of Enlightenment

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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The Mourner's Book of Faith

30 Days of Enlightenment

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

Experiencing the death of a loved one can often lead to questioning or abandoning one’s spirituality, yet in this compassionate book, Dr. Alan Wolfelt explains that the essential need to mourn and question the meaning of life and death is not inconsistent with faith but instead is a reflection of an ongoing and ever-deepening relationship with God. The book explores all types of losses and viewpoints, containing favorite quotations on faith from a variety of religious traditions. It explains that the need to mourn and having faith are not mutually exclusive and are, in fact, both essential components of the journey through grief. This compassionate guide explains how embracing grief can deepen one’s faith and lead to a more meaningful, joyful life.

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1617221627

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The Handbook for Companioning the Mourner

Eleven Essential Principles

By: Alan D Wolfelt

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The Handbook for Companioning the Mourner

Eleven Essential Principles

By: Alan D Wolfelt

Partly a counseling model and partly an explanation of true empathy, this handbook explores the ways companionship eases grief. For caretakers who work with grieving people or for friends and family just hoping to stay close, 11 tenets are outlined for mourner-led care. These simple rules call for understanding another person's pain, listening with the heart rather than the head, not filling up every minute with words, respecting confusion and disorder, and relying on curiosity rather than expertise.

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The Mourner's Book of Courage

30 Days of Encouragement

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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The Mourner's Book of Courage

30 Days of Encouragement

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

Written for those times in grief when the strength to do the hard and necessary work of mourning is waning, this book contains inspiring words about finding the courage deep within to embrace the pain and go on living. Presented in a one-reading-a-day-for-a-month format, it features compassionate writings by grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, as well as quotes on courage from some of the world's greatest thinkers. The Mourner's Book of Courage provides the needed boost to confront grief directly and allow the process of healing to continue.

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Healing the Adult Sibling's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas After Your Brother or Sister Dies

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Healing the Adult Sibling's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas After Your Brother or Sister Dies

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

Compassionate and heartfelt, this collection offers 100 practical ideas to help understand and accept the passing of a sibling in order to practice self-healing. The principles of grief and mourning are clearly defined, accompanied by action-oriented tips for embracing bereavement. Whether a sibling has died as a young or older adult or the death was sudden or anticipated, this resource provides a healthy approach to dealing with the aftermath.

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1879651297

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Healing Grief at Work

100 Practical Ideas After Your Workplace Is Touched by Loss

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Healing Grief at Work

100 Practical Ideas After Your Workplace Is Touched by Loss

By: Alan D Wolfelt

With a gentle and considerate style, this handbook explores what happens when grief and the workplace meet, and the drastic effects of grieving on employees, their performance, and the overall workplace environment. Touching on the different kinds of grief workers can experience, such as death, divorce, and layoffs, the effective ways to channel grief during the workday, how to support coworkers who mourn, participation in group memorials, and negotiating appropriate bereavement leave, this concise and practical resource gives both ideas for the mourner and the mourner's coworkers. A special introduction for employers, owners, managers, and human resource personnel addresses the economic impact of grief in the workplace and provides practical and cost effective ideas for maintaining morale and creating a productive yet compassionate work environment.

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1617220582

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Healing Your Grieving Body

100 Physical Practices for Mourners

By: Alan D. Wolfelt,Alan Wolfelt,Kirby J. Duvall

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Healing Your Grieving Body

100 Physical Practices for Mourners

By: Alan D. Wolfelt,Alan Wolfelt,Kirby J. Duvall

Acknowledging the unique set of symptoms that accompanies a period of mourning, this guide is the ideal companion to weathering the storm of physical distress. From muscle aches and pains to problems with eating and sleeping, this handbook addresses how the body responds to the impact of profound loss. Low energy, headaches, and other conditions are also taken into account. With 100 ways to help soothe the body and calm the mind, this compassionate study is an excellent resource in understanding the connection between the two.

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1879651637

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The Paradoxes of Mourning

Healing Your Grief with Three Forgotten Truths

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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The Paradoxes of Mourning

Healing Your Grief with Three Forgotten Truths

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

When it comes to healing after the death of someone loved, our culture has it all wrong. We're told to be strong when what we really need is to be vulnerable. We're told to think positive when what we really need is to wallow in the pain. And we're told to seek closure when what we really need is to welcome our natural and necessary grief. Dr. Wolfelt's new book seeks to dispel these misconceptions that we hold on to so tightly and help people everywhere mourn well so they can live fuller lives. The Paradoxes of Mourning discusses three truths that grieving people used to know and respect but in the last century, seem to have forgotten: 1. You must make friends with the darkness before you can enter the light. 2. You must go backward before you can go forward. 3. You must say hello before you can say goodbye. In the tradition of the Four Agreements and the Seven Habits, this compassionate and inspiring guidebook by North America's most beloved grief counselor gives you the three keys that unlock the door to hope and healing.

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The Guilt of Grief

How to Understand, Embrace, and Restoratively Express Guilt and Regret after a Loss

By: Alan D Wolfelt

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The Guilt of Grief

How to Understand, Embrace, and Restoratively Express Guilt and Regret after a Loss

By: Alan D Wolfelt

We don't only experience grief after a loss—we often experience it before. If someone we love is seriously ill, or if we're concerned about upcoming hardships of any kind, we naturally begin to grieve right now. This process of anticipatory grief is normal, but it can also be confusing and painful. Life is change, and change is hard. This book will help see you through.

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Healing a Child's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers

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Healing a Child's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers

By: Alan D Wolfelt

A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say—or what not to say—to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches that the most important thing a person can do is listen, have compassion, be there for support, and do something helpful. This volume addresses what to expect from grieving young people, and how to provide safe outlets for children to express emotion. Included in each book are tested, sensitive ideas for “carpe diem” actions that people can take right this minute—while still remaining supportive and honoring the mourner's loss.

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Healing Your Grieving Heart When Someone You Care About Has Alzheimer's

100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends, and Caregivers

By: Alan D. Wolfelt,Kirby Duvall

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Healing Your Grieving Heart When Someone You Care About Has Alzheimer's

100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends, and Caregivers

By: Alan D. Wolfelt,Kirby Duvall

Navigating the challenging journey that families and friends of Alzheimer’s patients must endure, this heartfelt guide reveals how their struggle is as complex and drawn out as the illness itself. Confronting their natural but difficult process of grieving and mourning, the study covers the inevitable feelings of shock, sadness, anger, guilt, and relief, illustrating the initial reactions people commonly feel from the moment of the dementia’s onset. Healthy and productive ways to acknowledge and express these feelings are suggested along with 100 tips and activities that fulfill the emotional, spiritual, cognitive, physical, and social needs of those who care about someone afflicted with this debilitating disease. Special consideration is also shown for caregivers, whose grief is often complicated by the demanding physical attention that patients require.

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The Anger of Grief

How to Understand, Embrace, and Restoratively Express Explosive Emotions after a Loss

By: Alan D Wolfelt

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The Anger of Grief

How to Understand, Embrace, and Restoratively Express Explosive Emotions after a Loss

By: Alan D Wolfelt

Anger in grief is natural. It's normal to feel anger and other explosive emotions such as hate, blame, terror, resentment, rage, and jealousy after the death of someone you love or another significant life loss. Yet it's challenging to experience these feelings day after day. And it can be hard knowing what to do about them. Allowing them to seethe and build up inside you is not the answer. Neither is lashing out at people who care about you. This book will show you how to understand and express your anger and other explosive emotions in restorative ways. Learning to be with your anger and soothe it will not only help you on your healing journey in grief, it will also give you tools for living the remainder of your days with less suffering and more joy. If you are angry, let us begin.

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Healing Your Holiday Grief

100 Practical Ideas for Blending Mourning and Celebration During the Holiday Season

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Healing Your Holiday Grief

100 Practical Ideas for Blending Mourning and Celebration During the Holiday Season

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

With compassionate insight, this handbook helps those in mourning through what can be the hardest time of year—the holiday season. Mourners will better understand their complex emotions after reading about such topics as honoring thoughts and feelings, creating new traditions, finding ways to de-stress, and incorporating healing rituals into the holiday season. This book's practical wisdom also covers issues such as decision-making during the holidays and coping with the blending of mourning and celebration. All of the answers and advice in this guide are provided in the popular 100 ideas format that features one idea per page, allowing readers to fully absorb each suggestion.

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1879651483

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Healing Your Grief About Aging

100 Practical Ideas on Growing Older with Confidence, Meaning and Grace

By: Alan D. Wolfelt,Kirby J. Duvall

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Healing Your Grief About Aging

100 Practical Ideas on Growing Older with Confidence, Meaning and Grace

By: Alan D. Wolfelt,Kirby J. Duvall

Getting older goes hand in hand with losses of many kinds—ending careers, empty nests, illness, the deaths of loved ones—and this book by one of the world's most beloved grief experts helps one acknowledge and mourn the many losses of aging while also offering advice for living better in old age. The 100 practical tips and activities address the emotional, spiritual, cognitive, social, and physical needs of seniors who want to age authentically and gracefully, and each idea also includes a seize-the-day action to live fully and with joy in the present moment. For those who’ve just entered their 50s or are well on their way to the century mark, this book promises elder-friendly tips for comfort, laughter, and inspiration.

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Cherishing

The Art of Fully Living While Still Loving and Honoring Those Who’ve Died

By: Alan D Wolfelt

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Cherishing

The Art of Fully Living While Still Loving and Honoring Those Who’ve Died

By: Alan D Wolfelt

After the death of someone close to you, you enter a time of deep grief. And if you use this time to actively, intentionally engage with your grief, you find helpful ways to express it. You do the work of mourning. You share it outside yourself— in doses and over time— so that you begin to integrate your loss into your ongoing life. In other words, you mourn well so that you can heal well— and live and love well again. Eventually you understand that while your grief is never “ over,” it is reconciled. It is an integrated part of your life story. Your love is not “ over,” either, of course. You feel it in the present just as much as you did in the past. So after your time of deep grief has passed, how do you continue to love and honor the special person who died even as you fully live your own remaining precious days here on earth? In response to this common challenge, this book by one of the world' s most beloved grief counselors proposes a way of being Dr. Wolfelt calls “ cherishing.” To cherish means to protect and care for lovingly, and to hold dear. The mindset, suggestions, and practices in this resource will help you build cherishing into your daily routines. They will also assist you in making the most of situations in which mourners often feel torn— both happy and sad— such as holidays, anniversaries, weddings, and other celebrations and life transitions. You can live fully while still loving and honoring those who' ve died. This book will help see how.

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Caring for Donor Families

Before, During and After

By: Raelynn Maloney,Alan D. Wolfelt

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Caring for Donor Families

Before, During and After

By: Raelynn Maloney,Alan D. Wolfelt

Integrating vital information on the dynamics of the donation experience and grief education, this revised second edition provides an invaluable resource for hospital and organ procurement caregivers. Going beyond helping professionals understand the challenges of obtaining consent, this guide invites them to offer compassionate care throughout the family’s experience with the death, including the months and years following. The chapters include information on understanding the family’s initial responses, helping families understand brain death, facilitating the donation discussion, assisting families with meaningful leave-taking rituals, understanding long-term grief responses, and establishing an ongoing family support program. Three easy-to-follow sections—before, during, and after the donation experience—guarantee that caregivers can easily access the section most relevant to their role with the family.

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1617221341

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Healing a Child's Heart After Divorce

100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers

By: Alan D. Wolfelt,Alan Wolfelt,Raelynn Maloney

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Healing a Child's Heart After Divorce

100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers

By: Alan D. Wolfelt,Alan Wolfelt,Raelynn Maloney

Addressing the significant loss that divorce represents for children, this caregiving companion makes it possible for adults to guide them through the natural grief that accompanies the experience. Contending that children can continue to thrive if they are shown the way, this sensitive guide provides 100 practical suggestions for supporting them. Aimed at assisting a wide range of adults, the methods presented are ideal not just for parents but for grandparents, teachers, day care workers, counselors, and even coaches who care for and about kids. Enabling grownups with down-to-earth tips, this handbook is essential for helping sons and daughters navigate the inevitable array of confusing thoughts and feelings.

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Healing a Grandparent's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas After Your Grandchild Dies

By: Alan D Wolfelt

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Healing a Grandparent's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas After Your Grandchild Dies

By: Alan D Wolfelt

This heartfelt manual is an indispensable and easily referenced resource for grieving grandparents, offering them a way forward after the death of a grandchild. Whether they were close to their grandchild and keenly feeling his or her absence, or even if they were not close to the child and are mourning the loss of a relationship they'll never have, this book offers grandparents compassionate comfort and practical ideas for their journey through grief, addressing as well the unique pain of watching their children mourn the loss of their child. The ideas offered in the book clarify the basic principles of grief and mourning and offer immediate suggestions for things grandparents can do to embrace their grief, honor and remember their grandchild, and begin to heal.

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Healing After Divorce

100 Practical Ideas for Kids

By: Alan D. Wolfelt,Raelynn Maloney

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Healing After Divorce

100 Practical Ideas for Kids

By: Alan D. Wolfelt,Raelynn Maloney

Focusing on the natural grief children endure when their parents divorce, this guide helps kids process the common feelings of shock, sadness, anger, guilt, and relief while highlighting their most vital need—love and support. The handbook helps children name and understand these strange new emotions and affirms that their thoughts and feelings are natural while teaching them the value of constructively expressing them. An assortment of suggested physical and verbal activities for mourning grief are also included.

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1617221392

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Healing Your Grief When Disaster Strikes

100 Practical Ideas for Coping After a Tornado, Hurricane, Flood, Earthquake, Wildfire, or Other Natural Disaster

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Healing Your Grief When Disaster Strikes

100 Practical Ideas for Coping After a Tornado, Hurricane, Flood, Earthquake, Wildfire, or Other Natural Disaster

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

When your family, neighborhood, city, or area of the country is affected by a natural disaster, it’s normal and necessary to feel grief and the traumatic experience of actually witnessing and surviving the event may be consuming you. This book will help you understand and embrace your difficult thoughts and feelings. It will be a compassionate companion to you as you move through shock and numbness and struggle with ongoing grief symptoms such as fear, guilt, and sadness. Some of the 100 ideas explain the basic principles of grief and mourning and how they apply in the aftermath of a natural disaster, while others offer immediate, here-and-now suggestions of things you can do today to express your grief and live with meaning in each moment.

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Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids

100 Practical Ideas

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids

100 Practical Ideas

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies. Each book, geared for mourning adults, teens, or children, provides ideas and action-oriented tips that teach the basic principles of grief and healing. These ideas and activities are aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void so that the living can begin their lives again. Included in the books for teens and kids are age-appropriate activities that teach younger people that their thoughts are not only normal but necessary.

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Eight Critical Questions for Mourners

And the Answers That Will Help You Heal

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Eight Critical Questions for Mourners

And the Answers That Will Help You Heal

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

Confronting the “little griefs” that can occur in the course of a lifetime, this handbook seeks to relieve the inevitable burden of loss. Taking the “wilderness experience” into account—being disconnected from oneself and the outside world—this guide presents 12 vital questions, the answers to which encourage the choice between deciding to live and letting sadness take control. Delving into the possibilities behind integrating sorrow into one’s life, this study is the road map to exploring and honoring the transformational nature of grief.

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1879651629

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Healing After Job Loss

100 Practical Ideas

By: Alan D Wolfelt,Kirby J. Duvall

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Healing After Job Loss

100 Practical Ideas

By: Alan D Wolfelt,Kirby J. Duvall

Full of practical, time-tested counsel, this handbook offers simple, useful tips and activities to counter the typically negative reactions to job loss, such as loss of self esteem, and explores thoughts and feelings with the goal of healing. Whether discussing situations when companies have been downsized or individuals have been fired, furloughed, or laid off, this guide provides a healthy way of dealing with often overwhelming feelings—of anger, anxiety, depression, and hopelessness—in a healthy, hopeful manner.

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Healing a Friend or Loved One's Grieving Heart After a Cancer Diagnosis

100 Practical Ideas for Providing Compassion, Comfort, and Care

By: Alan D Wolfelt,Kirby J. Duvall

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Healing a Friend or Loved One's Grieving Heart After a Cancer Diagnosis

100 Practical Ideas for Providing Compassion, Comfort, and Care

By: Alan D Wolfelt,Kirby J. Duvall

Half of all men and one-third of all women in the United States will develop cancer during their lifetimes, according to the American Cancer Society, and on top of the pain and struggle that patients have to face, a cancer diagnosis can also profoundly affect the lives of their loved ones. Friends and family members who may not know what to do, what to say, or how to help an individual diagnosed with cancer will find guidance and comfort in this book that helps them understand the normal and natural grief their loved one is experiencing. The basic process of grief and mourning is explained, and suggestions are provided for things readers can do to help their friend or family member not only survive, but thrive. Regardless of the type or stage of cancer, the treatment plan, or the prognosis, this compassionate guide will help readers be good companions throughout the journey that is cancer.

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Healing a Friend's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas for Helping Someone You Love Through Loss

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Healing a Friend's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas for Helping Someone You Love Through Loss

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say—or what not to say—to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches that the most important thing a person can do is listen, have compassion, be there for support, and do something helpful. This volume provides the fundamental principles of being a true companion, from committing to contact the friend regularly to being mindful of the anniversary of the death. Included in each book are tested, sensitive ideas for “carpe diem” actions that people can take right this minute—while still remaining supportive and honoring the mourner’s loss.

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1879651262

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Healing Your Grieving Heart After Miscarriage

100 Practical Ideas for Parents and Families

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Healing Your Grieving Heart After Miscarriage

100 Practical Ideas for Parents and Families

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

The miscarriage of a hoped-for child is a shattering loss and those who had already begun to feel attached to the baby will naturally grieve—particularly the mother and father but also siblings this baby would have had, extended family, and friends. This compassionate guide contains 100 practical ideas to help those affected by the tragedy of miscarriage, from teaching the principles of grief and mourning to practical, action-oriented tips for coping with the natural difficulties of a loss. Fostering communication between partners, explaining the loss to others, and reconciling anger and guilt are some of the additional topics covered in this compassionate book for those grieving in the aftermath of a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy.

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1617222186

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Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say—or what not to say—to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches that the most important thing a person can do is listen, have compassion, be there for support, and do something helpful. This volume addresses what to expect from grieving young people, and how to provide safe outlets for teens to express emotion. Included in each book are tested, sensitive ideas for “carpe diem” actions that people can take right this minute—while still remaining supportive and honoring the mourner’s loss.

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Companioning You!

A Soulful Guide to Caring for Yourself While You Care for the Dying and the Bereaved

By: Alan D Wolfelt

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Companioning You!

A Soulful Guide to Caring for Yourself While You Care for the Dying and the Bereaved

By: Alan D Wolfelt

Based on Dr. Wolfelt's unique and highly regarded philosophy of "companioning" versus treating mourners, this self-care guide for professional and lay grief caregivers emphasizes the importance of taking good care of oneself as a precursor to taking good care of others. Bereavement care is draining work, and remaining empathetic to the painful struggles of mourners, death, and dying, day in and day out, makes caregivers highly susceptible to burnout. This book demonstrates how caring for oneself first allows one to be a more effective caregiver to others. Through the advice, suggestions, and practices directed specifically to caregiving situations and needs, caregivers will learn not to lose sight of caring for themselves as they care for others.

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Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens

100 Practical Ideas

By: Alan D Wolfelt

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100 Practical Ideas

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Healing Your Chronic Illness Grief

100 Practical Ideas for Living Your Best Life

By: Alan D. W,Jaimie A. Wolfelt

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Healing Your Chronic Illness Grief

100 Practical Ideas for Living Your Best Life

By: Alan D. W,Jaimie A. Wolfelt

Chronic illness is a type of loss. Depending on your condition and its course, you may be confronted with physical limitations, financial struggles, relationship challenges, and much more. Your hoped-for future may feel stolen from you. In addition to good physical care, acknowledging and working through your normal, necessary grief along the way is essential to living well with chronic illness. Mourning is important self-care. The 100 tips, affirmations, and simple activities in this book will help you attune to and express your feelings each day. They will support you in living your best life physically, cognitively, emotionally, socially, and spiritually. To mourn well is to clear the way for living well. Let's get started.

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Healing Your Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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100 Practical Ideas

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, it explains how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies. Each book, geared for mourning adults, teens, or children, provides ideas and action-oriented tips that teach the basic principles of grief and healing. These ideas and activities are aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void so that living their lives can begin again.

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The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide

By: Alan D Wolfelt

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The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide

By: Alan D Wolfelt

When we're grieving the death of someone loved, we need the support and compassion of our fellow human beings. Grief support groups provide a wonderful opportunity for this very healing kind of support. This book is for professional or lay caregivers who want to start and lead an effective grief support group for adults. It explains how to get a group started and how to keep it running smoothly once it's underway. The group leader's roles and responsibilities are explored in detail, including communication skills, trust building, handling problems, and more.This Guide also includes twelve meeting plans that interface with the second editions of Understanding Your Grief and The Understanding Your Grief Journal. Each week group members read a chapter in the main text, complete a chapter in the journal, and come to group ready for you to guide them through an exploration of the content. Meeting plans include suggestions for how to open each session as well as engaging exercises and activities. A Certificate of Completion you can photocopy and give to group members in the final meeting is provided.

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The Transcending Divorce Journal

Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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The Transcending Divorce Journal

Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

An aide for the challenging emotional process that follows a divorce, this companion journal to Transcending Divorce explores the 10 crucial touchstones for finding hope and healing the mourning heart, including dispelling misconceptions about divorce, seeking reconciliation, and appreciating the transformation. Highlights from the companion book are provided throughout as well as corresponding questions regarding the grief journey. Private and independent, this compassionate journal provides ample space to unburden the heart and soul.

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The Understanding Your Suicide Grief Support Group Guide

Meeting Plans for Facilitators

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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The Understanding Your Suicide Grief Support Group Guide

Meeting Plans for Facilitators

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to their grief. Using the metaphor of the wilderness, the book introduces 10 touchstones to assist the survivor in this naturally complicated and particularly painful journey. The touchstones include opening to the presence of loss, embracing the uniqueness of grief, understanding the six needs of mourning, reaching out for help, and seeking reconciliation over resolution. Learning to identify and rely on each of these touchstones will bring about hope and healing. Including 12 meeting plans that interface with the main text and companion journal, this organizational guide deftly combines grief education with compassionate support for those who want to facilitate an effective suicide grief support group.

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Funeral Home Customer Service A–Z

Creating Exceptional Experiences for Today's Families

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Funeral Home Customer Service A–Z

Creating Exceptional Experiences for Today's Families

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

From personalizing memorials and visitations to aftercare for the bereaved, this thoughtful manual helps owners and staff of funeral homes and cemeteries better understand their customers and the special needs in tending to the grieving and burial process. Explaining the evolution and prospects of today's "experience economy" customer, this motivational resource offers practical guidance for exceeding expectations and provides suggestions for service issues particular to funeral homes, such as first impressions, telephone skills, competition, and arrangements. With the more than 70 issues addressed, funeral professionals will be able to meet and exceed the sensitive necessities of families in pain.

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The Understanding Your Grief Journal

Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones

By: Alan D Wolfelt

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The Understanding Your Grief Journal

Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones

By: Alan D Wolfelt

This companion workbook to the second edition of Dr. Wolfelt's bestseller Understanding Your Grief helps you explore the many facets of your grief through guided journaling. After you read a section in Understanding Your Grief, the journal asks you questions about what you've just read. It invites you to consider, clarify, and jot down your thoughts and feelings.A good grief journal is a safe place of solace—somewhere you can express yourself no matter what you are experiencing. If you're grieving a death or a significant loss of any kind, this journal and its companion text will help you understand and embrace your grief, actively mourn, and move toward healing. You'll find that the journal can also be used to help honor the person who died and/or work through any lingering relationship issues. As you express your emotions in this journal, you will feel them beginning to soften as well as become more integrated into your ongoing life. Write as much as or as little as you'd like. Even just a little engagement with this journal will help you befriend your grief and give you healing momentum.

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Transcending Divorce

Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Transcending Divorce

Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

With empathy and wisdom, this resource provides 10 essential touchstones for hope and healing when enduring a divorce while simultaneously dispelling common misconceptions associated with divorce. Stressing the importance of the need to fully mourn the loss of a relationship before moving on, this compassionate guide—written with a warm, direct tone—will help divorcees reconcile and discover a happy, healthy life. An appendix with useful meeting plans for group sessions is also included.

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Understanding Your Suicide Grief

Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

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The Depression of Grief

Coping with Your Sadness and Knowing When to Get Help

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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The Depression of Grief

Coping with Your Sadness and Knowing When to Get Help

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

Recognizing that depression is a normal and natural component of grief, this compassionate guide helps mourners understand their depression, express it in healing ways, and know when they may be experiencing a more severe or clinical depression that would be eased by professional treatment. It proposes that grieving people do not necessarily need to be diagnosed with depression following the death of a loved one and guides them through exercises to express their depression in healthy ways. In a society where mourning and melancholia are often ignored, this book gives mourners the supported and reassurance necessary to understand and appreciate that their depression is a regular part of the grieving process.

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