Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart by Alan D. Wolfelt, John DeBerry (Foreword by)
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- Pub. Date: January 2004
- 176pp
- Sales Rank: 11,895
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: January 2004
- Publisher: Companion Press
- Format: Paperback, 176pp
- Sales Rank: 11,895
- Series: Understanding Your Grief
- ISBN-13: 9781879651357
- ISBN: 1879651351
Synopsis
Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed as well. The rights of mourners to be compassionate with themselves, to lean on others for help, and to trust in their ability to heal are upheld. Journaling sections encourage mourners to articulate their unique thoughts and feelings.
About the Author:
Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D., serves as director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition. He writes the "Children and Grief" column for Bereavement Magazine and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, and Today. He is the author of Healing Your Grieving Heart, Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart, and Understanding Grief. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heartby Anonymous
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November 15, 2005: It took me several months after my husband's death to start looking for a book that might teach me a little about what I am experiencing and how to live with it. Once I did, I have found Dr. Wolfelt's work by far my favorite that I've seen, skimmed or read in entirety. What I like best about it is this: the author encourages readers to honor their lost loved one and themselves -- not simply to learn how to 'move on' or 'feel better faster,' as so many other materials do. If you want a quick fix, this is not for you. If you want a compassionate exploration of what has happened to you and how to treat this traumatic, momentous life change with love and respect (and with faith and hope, if you choose), you will get much from this work.
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