Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

One of North America's most loved grief educators, Dr. Alan Wolfelt has written many books about healing in grief. This new book is his most comprehensive, covering the most important lessons that mourners have taught him in his two decades of working with the bereaved.

In compassionate, everyday language (no pscyho-babble here), Understanding Your Grief explains the important difference between grief and mourning and explores the mourner's need to acknowledge the death and embrace the pain of the loss. This important book also explores the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the myriad of normal thoughts and feelings the mourner might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed. Dr. Wolfelt also offers suggestions for good self-care.

Throughout, Dr. Wolfelt affirms the readers' rights to be compassionate with themselves, lean on others for help, and trust in their innate ability to heal. Journaling sections encourage readers to articulate their unique thoughts and feelings.