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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.
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Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
One of North America's leading grief educators, Dr. Alan Wolfelt has written many books about healing in grief. This book is his most comprehensive, covering the essential lessons that mourners have taught him in his three decades of working with the bereaved. In compassionate, down-to-earth language, Understanding Your Grief describes ten touchstones—or trail markers—that are essential physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual signs for mourners to look for on their journey through grief.
The Understanding Your Grief Journal: Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones
The Understanding Your Grief Journal is a companion workbook to Dr. Wolfelt's Understanding Your Grief. Designed to help mourners explore the many facets of their unique grief through journaling, this compassionate book interfaces with the ten essential touchstones. Throughout, journalers are asked specific questions about their own unique grief journeys as they relate to the touchstones and are provided with writing space for the many questions asked.
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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 flagship title in our 100 Ideas Series offers 100 practical ideas to help you practice self-compassion. Some of the ideas teach you the principles of grief and mourning.
The remainder offer practical, action-oriented tips for embracing your grief. Each idea also suggests a carpe diem, which will help you seize the day by helping you move toward your healing today.
“So often we try to dance around our grief. This book offers the reader a safe place to do the healing work of “catch-up” mourning, opening the door to a life of freedom, authenticity and purpose.”
— Kim Farris-Luke, bereavement coordinator
Are you depressed? Anxious? Angry? Do you have trouble with trust and intimacy? Do you feel a lack of meaning and purpose in your life? You may well be living in the shadow of the ghosts of grief.
This compassionate guide will help you learn to identify and mourn your carried grief so you can go on to live the joyful, whole life you deserve.
When your spouse dies, your loss is profound. Not only have you lost the companionship of someone you deeply loved, you have lost the person who shared your history, your helpmate, your lover, perhaps your financial provider.
To integrate loss and to move forward with a life of meaning and love, you must have hope. Hope is a belief in a good that is yet to be. This beautiful little hardcover gift book offers Dr. Wolfelt’s thoughts on hope in grief interspersed with quotes from the world’s greatest hope-filled thinkers.
When your pet dies, you may struggle with your grief. You may feel overwhelmed at the depth of your sadness. This book affirms the pet owner's grief and helps you understand why your feelings are so strong. It also offers practical suggestions for mourning—expressing your grief outside of yourself—so that you can heal. Ideas for remembering and memorializing your pet are also included.
Dr. Wolfelt has been a dog lover and owner for a long time, suffering the loss of his Husky several years ago. Many have been asking Dr. Wolfelt to write a book about pet loss to add to his comprehensive list of publications about grief. Here it is—in his compassionate, practical, inimitable style.
When people get older, they die. We understand this, yet when a parent who has lived to middle or old age dies, the death often still comes as a shock. And the grief can be surprisingly deep and painful.
When loss enters your life, you are faced with many choices. The questions you ask and the choices you make will determine whether you become among the “living dead” or go on to live until you die. If you are going to integrate grief into your life, it helps to recognize what questions to ask yourself on the journey.
This book provides the answers that will help you clarify your experiences and encourage you to make choices that honor the transformational nature of grief and loss.
One of North America's leading grief educators, Dr. Alan Wolfelt has written many books about healing in grief. This book is his most comprehensive, covering the essential lessons that mourners have taught him in his three decades of working with the bereaved. In compassionate, down-to-earth language, Understanding Your Grief describes ten touchstones—or trail markers—that are essential physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual signs for mourners to look for on their journey through grief.
Grief is in large part a spiritual struggle, and turning to spiritual practices in the face of loss helps many people find hope and healing. Following a helpful introduction about the role of spirituality in grief, this practical guide offers tips and activities on meditation, prayer, yoga, solitude and many more.
This popular hardcover book makes a wonderful gift for those who grieve, helping them gently engage in the work of mourning. Comforting and nurturing, The Journey Through Grief doses mourners with the six needs of mourning, helping them soothe themselves at the same time it helps them heal.
This revised, second edition of The Journey Through Grief takes Dr. Wolfelt's popular book of reflections and adds space for guided journaling, asking readers thoughtful questions about their unique mourning needs and providing room to write responses.
The Journey Through Grief is organized around the six needs that all mourners must yield to—indeed embrace—if they are to go on to find continued meaning in life and living. Following a short explanation of each mourning need is a series of brief, spiritual passages that, when read slowly and reflectively, help mourners work through their unique thoughts and feelings. The Journey Through Grief is being used by many faith communities as part of their grief support programs.
Death is never easy, but for families and friends affected by a sudden, violent death, grief is especially traumatic. Deaths caused by accidents, homicide and suicide typically seem premature, unjust, and very, very wrong.
When your adult brother or sister dies, part of you dies, too. Whether your sibling died as a young or older adult, whether the death was sudden or anticipated, this compassionate and easy-to-use resource is for you. Turn to any page and seize the day by taking a small step toward healing.
This hardcover gift book is a compassionate, easy-to-read guide to finding your way through the wilderness of divorce. This book is an excerpted version of the comprehensive Transcending Divorce: Ten Essential Touchstones, making it a more concise, friendly guide for the newly divorced.
Writing can be a very effective form of mourning, or expressing your grief outside yourself. And it is through mourning that you heal in grief.
The Understanding Your Grief Journal is a companion workbook to Dr. Wolfelt's Understanding Your Grief. Designed to help mourners explore the many facets of their unique grief through journaling, this compassionate book interfaces with the ten essential touchstones. Throughout, journalers are asked specific questions about their own unique grief journeys as they relate to the touchstones and are provided with writing space for the many questions asked.
Purchased as a set together with Understanding Your Grief, this journal is a wonderful mourning tool and safe place for those in grief. It also makes an ideal grief support group workbook.
Grieving the death of someone loved is always hard, but during the holiday season it can seem overwhelming. Is it possible to mourn and celebrate at the same time?
Topics covered include honoring your thoughts and feelings, giving yourself permission to mourn, deciding what is important and what isn't, creating new traditions, finding ways to de-stress, and incorporating healing rituals into your holidays.
Specific, creative tips for blending mourning and celebration are also included.
Do you have muscle aches and pains, problems with eating and sleeping, low energy, headaches and other physical symptoms since the death of someone loved? The mind-body connection in grief is profoundly strong, but taking care of your body in the 100 ways described will help you soothe your body as you heal your heart and soul.
The unthinkable has happened: your child has died. How do you go on? What can you do with your pain? Where do you turn?
Common challenges, such as dealing with marital stress, helping surviving siblings, dealing with hurtful advice from others and exploring feelings of guilt, are also addressed.
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