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The Wilderness of Grief

Finding Your Way

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Based on the author's previous guides to a 10-touchstone method of grief therapy, this book takes an inspirational approach to the material, presenting the idea of wilderness as a sustained metaphor for grief—and likening the death of a loved one to the experience of being wrenched from normal life and dropped down in the middle of nowhere. Feeling lost and afraid in this uncharted territory, people are initially overwhelmed, the book explains, but they begin to make their way through the new landscape by searching for trail markers—or touchstones—until they emerge as intrepid travelers climbing up out of despair. The touchstones for each step are described in short chapters such as "Embrace the Uniqueness of Your Loss," "Recognize You Are Not Crazy," and "Appreciate Your Transformation.

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1617220159

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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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Grief Day by Day

Simple, Everyday Practices to Help Yourself Survive... and Thrive

By: Alan D Wolfelt

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Grief Day by Day

Simple, Everyday Practices to Help Yourself Survive... and Thrive

By: Alan D Wolfelt

When we are grieving the death of someone loved, we may struggle with making it through each day. How are we supposed to cope with our gut-wrenching grief and live our daily lives at the same time? What should we do with our chaotic, painful, and intrusive thoughts and feelings? How do we survive? And is it possible to both grieve and live with meaning and hope? If you've been asking yourself such questions, this book by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors provides affirmation and answers. Rituals give us something to do with our grief. Simple, everyday practices can give structure to our grief and hold us up us when we're feeling like we might collapse. In fact, when we're in grief, rituals are essentially effective beelines to healing. Learn what makes a ritual a ritual. (Spoiler alert: Rituals can be easy and fast!) Try some of the many solo rituals gathered here, such as letter writing, meditating, intentional emoting, grief walks, and the 10-minute grief encounter. And reach out to friends and loved ones who might like to get together for one of the simple group ceremonies. By incorporating the healing power of ritual into your days, you'll be not only surviving your grief, you'll be building in meaning and hope so that you can go on to thrive.

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1617222704

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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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1617223123

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Finding the Words

How to Talk with Children and Teens about Death, Suicide, Homicide, Funerals, Cremation, and other E

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Finding the Words

How to Talk with Children and Teens about Death, Suicide, Homicide, Funerals, Cremation, and other E

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

With this compassionate book by respected grief counselor and educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, readers will find simplified and suitable methods for talking to children and teenagers about sensitive topics with an emphasis on the subject of death. Honest but child-appropriate language is advocated, and various wording and levels of explanation are suggested for different ages when discussing topics such as death in general, suicide, homicide, accidental death, the death of a child, terminal illness, pet death, funerals, and cremation. An ideal book for parents, caregivers, and counselors looking for an easy resource when talking to youths about death, this book can be used for any setting, religious or otherwise.

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1617221910

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Complicated Grief:

How to Understand, Express, and Reconcile Your Especially Difficult Grief

By: Alan Wolfelt

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Complicated Grief:

How to Understand, Express, and Reconcile Your Especially Difficult Grief

By: Alan Wolfelt

Grief is always difficult, but if yours feels especially painful, stuck, or complex, you may be experiencing complicated grief. Complicated grief is not an illness or disorder. It's simply normal grief that's been made more challenging by circumstances that overwhelm the person in mourning. If someone you love has died of suicide, homicide, or accidental causes; if the death was violent or premature or ambiguous; if you are struggling with additional life issues right now, such as health challenges (physical or mental), family problems, or financial stress; if your relationship with the person who died was extremely close or troubled; if you have suffered several losses in quick succession--this concise guide is for you. In this compassionate resource by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors, you'll learn how complicated grief is different and what you can do to soften and eventually reconcile it. You'll inventory the reasons your grief is complicated. You'll learn the importance of engaging with and expressing your grief. And you'll find hope for your healing. There is a path through and beyond the wilderness of complicated grief. It's more arduous than most, but to li

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Words of Hope and Healing

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1617223182

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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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First Aid for Broken Hearts

By: Dr. Alan Wolfelt

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First Aid for Broken Hearts

By: Dr. Alan Wolfelt

Life is both wonderful and devastating. It graces us with joy, and it breaks our hearts. If your heart is broken, this book is for you. Whether you're struggling with a death, break-up, illness, unwanted life change, or loss of any kind, this book will help you both understand your predicament and figure out what to do about it. Loss may be an unavoidable part of human life, but it doesn't have to prevent you from living well. You can and will survive this. Actually, if you adopt this guide's basic principles, revealed and tested by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors, you will even go on to thrive. Let's get mending.

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1617222836

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When Your Soulmate Dies

A Guide to Healing Through Heroic Mourning

By: Dr. Alan Wolfelt

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When Your Soulmate Dies

A Guide to Healing Through Heroic Mourning

By: Dr. Alan Wolfelt

You were one of the lucky ones. You found a partner or friend with whom you shared a deeply profound connection. You understood, opened fully to, served, and challenged one another. You were the heroes of each other's lives. You lived a grand adventure together. But now that your partner has died, what felt like luck may have turned to wretched despair. How do you go on? How do you live without your champion and other half? The answer is that you mourn as you loved: heroically, grandly, and fully. In this compassionate guide by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors, you'll find empathetic affirmation and advice intermingled with real-life stories from other halved soulmates. Learn to honor your loved one and your grief even as you find a path to a renewed life of purpose and joy.

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1617222445

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Companioning the Bereaved

A Soulful Guide for Counselors & Caregivers

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Companioning the Bereaved

A Soulful Guide for Counselors & Caregivers

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

Renowned author and educator Alan Wolfelt redefines the role of the grief counselor in this guide for caregivers. His new model for "companioning" the bereaved gives a viable alternative to the limitations of the medical establishment, encouraging counselors and other caregivers to aspire to a more compassionate philosophy. This approach argues that grief need no longer be defined, diagnosed, and treated as an illness but rather should be an acknowledgement of an event that forever changes a person's worldview. Through careful listening and observation, the caregiver learns to support mourners and help them help themselves heal.

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1879651416

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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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1617223174

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Loving from the Outside In, Mourning from the Inside Out

By: Alan D Wolfelt

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Loving from the Outside In, Mourning from the Inside Out

By: Alan D Wolfelt

Recognizing how the need to grieve is anchored in one's capacity to care for someone, this calming guide contends that the act of mourning is healthy—and necessary—following a life-changing loss. The very foundation of attachment is reflected upon, illustrating devotion as both the primary cause of grief and a crucial source of emotional recovery. Exploring the essential principles of love as well as the reasons behind it, this heartfelt handbook makes it possible to embrace a trying but vital process.

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If You're Lonely: Finding Your Way

By: Alan Wolfelt

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If You're Lonely: Finding Your Way

By: Alan Wolfelt

Ironically, if you are lonely, you're not alone. People the world over are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness. In the US, one in five of us reports feeling lonely, and almost half of seniors are lonely on a regular basis. Loneliness hurts, and it can lead to depression, addiction, physical problems, and other harmful consequences. This compassionate guide offers a variety of practical suggestions for reclaiming community and building meaningful connections in ways that suit you. Finding your way back to companionship and hope is not only possible, it's essential. You deserve to feel better. You deserve connection. This book will help you find your way.

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1617222984

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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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1617223158

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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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1617222224

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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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Grief One Day at a Time

365 Meditations to Help You Heal After Loss

By: Dr. Alan Wolfelt

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Grief One Day at a Time

365 Meditations to Help You Heal After Loss

By: Dr. Alan Wolfelt

After a loved one dies, each day can be a struggle. But each day, you can also find comfort and understanding in this daily companion. With one brief entry for every day of the calendar year, this little book by beloved grief counselor Dr. Alan Wolfelt offers small, one-day-at-a-time doses of guidance and healing. Each entry includes an inspiring or soothing quote followed by a short discussion of the day's theme. This compassionate gem of a book will accompany you.

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1617222402

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Healing a Child's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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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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1617220426

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Expected Loss

Coping with Anticipatory Grief

By: Alan Wolfelt

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Expected Loss

Coping with Anticipatory Grief

By: Alan 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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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

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Counseling Skills for Companioning the Mourner

The Fundamentals of Effective Grief Counseling

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Counseling Skills for Companioning the Mourner

The Fundamentals of Effective Grief Counseling

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

An in-depth guide to the counseling process and establishing a trusting relationship with clients—from a bestselling author and grieving expert Helping people in grief means being an empathetic companion—someone who allows grievers to be experts of their own experiences, who bears witness without judging, who gently encourages the expression of thoughts and feelings. But even if you approach the work with this understanding, how you "are" when you spend time with the griever also has a tremendous influence on your capacity to help. How do you develop a relationship with the griever? How do you show empathy, respect, warmth, and genuineness? Could you improve your listening, paraphrasing, clarifying, perception checking, informing, and other essential helping skills? Whether you are a professional counselor or a lay helper, whether you have years of experience or are new to the work, this guide, based on by Dr. Wolfelt's companioning philosophy, will help you be the most effective grief companion you can be.

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1617222321

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Understanding Grief

Helping Yourself Heal

By: Alan Wolfelt

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Understanding Grief

Helping Yourself Heal

By: Alan Wolfelt

This classic resource helps guide the bereaved person through the loss of a loved one, and provides an opportunity to learn to live with and work through the personal grief process.

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Routledge

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1135059292

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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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365 Days of Understanding Your Grief

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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365 Days of Understanding Your Grief

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

After a significant loss, grief is an everyday experience. Bit by bit, these one-page-a-day readings will help you feel supported and muster the courage and hope you need to make it through the day. Whether you're choosing this book as a follow-up to Understanding Your Grief or as a way to engage with the teachings in a different format, you'll find a combination of classic content mixed with new ideas and insights. Reading just one page each day will help you sustain hope and heal your heart.

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365 Meditations

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1617222992

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365 Days of Understanding Your Grief

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365 Days of Understanding Your Grief

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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161722300X

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The Journey Through Grief

Reflections on Healing

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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The Journey Through Grief

Reflections on Healing

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

This spiritual companion for mourners affirms their need to mourn and invites them to journey through their very unique and personal grief. Detailed are the six needs that all mourners must yield to and eventually embrace if they are to go on to find continued meaning in life and living, including the need to remember the deceased loved one and the need for support from others. Short explanations of each mourning need are followed by brief, spiritual passages that, when read slowly and reflectively, help mourners work through their unique thoughts and feelings. Also included in this revised edition are journaling sections for mourners to write out their personal responses to each of the six needs. This replaces 1879651114.

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Understanding Your Grief

Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

By: Alan D Wolfelt

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Understanding Your Grief

Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

By: Alan D Wolfelt

Since its debut thirty years ago, this favorite by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors has found a place in the homes and hearts of hundreds of thousands of mourners across the globe. Filled with compassion and hope, Understanding Your Grief helps you understand and befriend your painful, complex thoughts and feelings after the death of someone loved. Befriending grief may sound counterintuitive, but actually, your grief is your love for the person who died in a different form, and like that love, it's also natural and necessary. Perhaps above all, Understanding Your Grief is practical. It's built on Dr. Wolfelt's Ten Touchstones, which are basic principles to learn and actions to take to help yourself engage with your grief and create momentum toward healing. This second edition maintains the content of the first edition but builds on it by adding concise wisdom on new topics such as the myth of closure, complicated and traumatic grief, grief overload, unmourned grief, loneliness, the power of ritual, and more. Excellent as an empathetic handbook for anyone in mourning as well as a text for support groups, Understanding Your Grief pairs with a guided journal.

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1617223085

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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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1617223107

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A Child's View of Grief

By: Alan D Wolfelt

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A Child's View of Grief

By: Alan D Wolfelt

This concise resource for parents of grieving kids explores several key principles for helping children cope with grief and offers ways to create an emotional environment filled with love and acceptance. It answers common questions such as “What should I say to children when someone they love dies?” and “Should young children attend funerals?” This guide also identifies and explains typical behaviors, thoughts, and feelings of grieving kids and offers adults tips for responding to them.

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Healing the Empty Nester's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas for Parents After the Kids Move Out, Go Off to College, or Start Taking Flight

By: Dr. Alan Wolfelt

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Healing the Empty Nester's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas for Parents After the Kids Move Out, Go Off to College, or Start Taking Flight

By: Dr. Alan Wolfelt

You've spent most of your adult life focused on the care and raising of your children, and now they're leaving. For you and for them, this major transition is often challenging in many ways. You may feel surprised at the power of your grief—a confusing mixture of sadness, hope, emptiness, fear, excitement, and other emotions all at once. This book by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors helps parents understand their normal and necessary empty nester grief. The 100 practical tips and activities are designed to help you acknowledge and express your feelings of loss, foster love and respect, and, over time, find ways to re-instill your life with meaning. Advice is also offered for nurturing a marriage or partnership through this challenging time.

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Grief After Homicide

Surviving, Mourning, Reconciling

By: Alan Wolfelt

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Grief After Homicide

Surviving, Mourning, Reconciling

By: Alan Wolfelt

If someone you love died by homicide, your grief is naturally traumatic and complicated. Not only might your grief journey be intertwined with painful criminal justice proceedings, you may also struggle with understandably intense rage, regret, and despair. It's natural for homicide survivors to focus on the particular circumstances of the death as well. Grief After Homicide offers suggestions for reconciling yourself to the death on your own terms and finding healing ways for you and your family to mourn. After a homicide death, there is help for those left behind, and there is hope. This book will help see you through.

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Sympathy & Condolences

What to Say and Write to Convey Your Support After a Loss

By: Alan Wolfelt

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Sympathy & Condolences

What to Say and Write to Convey Your Support After a Loss

By: Alan Wolfelt

When someone you care about has suffered the death of a loved one or another significant loss, you want to let them know you care. But it can be hard to know what to say to them or to write in a sympathy note. This handy book offers tips for how to talk or write to a grieving person to convey your genuine concern and support. What to say, what not to say, sympathy card etiquette, how to keep in touch, and more are covered in this concise guide written by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors. You'll turn to this book again and again, not only after a death but during times of divorce or break-ups, serious illness, loss of a pet, job change or loss, traumatic life events, major life transitions that are both happy and sad, and more.

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Healing After Job Loss

100 Practical Ideas

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

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Healing After Job Loss

100 Practical Ideas

By: Alan D. Wolfelt,Alan 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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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 a Teen's Grieving Heart

100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers

By: Alan D. Wolfelt

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Healing a Teen'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 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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Healing The Bereaved Child

By: Alan Wolfelt

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Healing The Bereaved Child

By: Alan Wolfelt

First published in 1996. One spring morning a gardener noticed an unfamiliar seedling poking through the ground near the rocky, untidy edge of his garden ... So begins the parable that sets the tone for this inspiring, heartfelt new book for caregivers to bereaved children. By comparing grief counseling to gardening, Dr. Wolfelt frees caregivers of the traditional medical model of bereavement care, which implies that grief is an illness that must be cured. He suggests that caregivers instead embrace a more holistic view of the normal, natural and necessary process that is grief. He then explores the ways in which bereaved children can not only heal but grow through grief. Healing the Bereaved Child also contains chapter after chapter of practical caregiving guidelines: • How a grieving child thinks, feels and mourns: What makes each child's grief unique; How the bereaved child heals: the six needs of mourning; Foundations of counseling bereaved children; Counseling techniques (play, art, writing, nature and many others; more than ,15 pages!); A family systems approach to counseling; Support groups for bereaved kids, including a 10 session model; Helping grieving children at school, including a crisis response team model; Helping the grieving adolescent; Self-care for the child’s bereavement caregiver. A must-read for child counselors, hospice caregivers, funeral directors, school counselors and teachers, clergy, parents-anyone who wants to offer support and companionship to children affected by the death of someone loved.

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