It's hard to talk to children and teens about death and dying, particularly when someone they love has died or might die soon. Our instinct as caring adults may be to shelter them from painful truths. Yet as Dr. Wolfelt emphasizes, what kids need most is our honesty and our loving presence.
Families that experience stillbirth face a difficult journey. This much-needed book includes tips for expressing feelings, remembering the child who died, and healing as a family.
Based on Dr. Wolfelt's six needs of mourning and written to pair with Companioning the Grieving Child, this comprehensive guide provides hundreds of hands-on activities tailored for grieving children in three age groups: early childhood, elementary, and teens.
Written by Patricia Morrissey, M.S. Ed.; Foreword by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D
In this compassionate, day-by-day book, Dr. Wolfelt explains that the essential need to mourn and question the meaning of life and death is not inconsistent with faith but rather a reflection of your ongoing and ever-deepening relationship with God. A month's worth of inspiration to revisit over and over again.
This book is written for those times in grief when you feel you don't have the courage to do the hard and necessary work of mourning. Written by beloved grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, it contains his compassionate words about finding courage deep within yourself. It also features quotes on courage from some of the world's greatest thinkers. The Mourner's Book of Courage will give you the dose of encouragement you need each day to not only survive your grief but to go on to thrive and live life more deeply than you ever imagined.
"The capacity to love requires the necessity to mourn.
"In other words, love and grief are two sides of the same precious coin. One does not—and cannot—exist without the other. They are the yin and yang of our lives." In this compassionate guide, internationally known grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt explores what love and grief have in common and invites the reader to mourn well in order to go on to live and love well again.
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, this newest addition to the popular 100 Ideas series covers the inevitable feelings of shock, sadness, anger, guilt, and relief, illustrating the intial reactions people commonly feel from the moment of the dementia's onset.
This book by one of North America's most respected grief educators presents a model for grief counseling based on his "companioning" principles.
For many mental healthcare providers, grief in contemporary society has been medicalized—perceived as if it were an illness that with proper assessment, diagnosis and treatment could be cured.
Dr. Wolfelt explains that our modern understanding of grief all too often conveys that at bereavement's "end" the mourner has completed a series of tasks, extinguished pain, and established new relationships. Our psychological models emphasize "recovery" or "resolution" in grief, suggesting a return to "normalcy."
