Understanding Your Grief

by Alan D. Wolfelt

Author	: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher	: Companion Press
Total Pages	: 194
Release	: 2004-02-01
Genre	: Self-Help
ISBN	: 1879651351

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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.

Understanding Grief

by Alan Wolfelt

Author	: Alan Wolfelt
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 218
Release	: 2013-06-17
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 1135059292

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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.

The Understanding Your Grief Journal

by Alan D. Wolfelt

Author	: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher	: Companion Press
Total Pages	: 162
Release	: 2004-04-01
Genre	: Self-Help
ISBN	: 1879651394

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This companion workbook to Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart is designed to help mourners explore the many facets of their unique grief through journaling. Ten essential touchstones for mourners are covered, including being open to the presence of loss, dispelling misconceptions about grief, embracing the uniqueness of grief, seeking reconciliation, and reaching out for help. Journalers are asked specific questions about their feelings of grief as they relate to the ten essential touchstones and are provided with writing space for their reflections.

Understanding Your Suicide Grief

by Alan D. Wolfelt

Author	: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher	: Companion Press
Total Pages	: 242
Release	: 2009-08-01
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 1879651580

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For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to their grief. Using the metaphor of the wilderness, the book introduces 10 touchstones to assist the survivor in this naturally complicated and particularly painful journey. The touchstones include opening to the presence of loss, embracing the uniqueness of grief, understanding the six needs of mourning, reaching out for help, and seeking reconciliation over resolution. Learning to identify and rely on each of these touchstones will bring about hope and healing.

The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide

by Alan D Wolfelt

Author	: Alan D Wolfelt
Publisher	: Companion Press
Total Pages	: 114
Release	: 2021-09-01
Genre	: Family & Relationships
ISBN	: 1617223123

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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.

The Journey Through Grief

by Alan D. Wolfelt

Author	: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher	: Companion Press
Total Pages	: 57
Release	: 2003-09-01
Genre	: Self-Help
ISBN	: 1617220973

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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.

365 Days of Understanding Your Grief

by Alan D. Wolfelt

Author	: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher	: Companion Press
Total Pages	: 387
Release	: 2021-03-01
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 161722300X

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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.

The Wilderness of Grief

by Alan D. Wolfelt

Author	: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher	: Companion Press
Total Pages	: 114
Release	: 2007-05-28
Genre	: Self-Help
ISBN	: 1617220159

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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."

Understanding Loss and Grief

by Nanette Burton Mongelluzzo

Author	: Nanette Burton Mongelluzzo
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages	: 241
Release	: 2023-06-14
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 1442222743

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A comprehensive self-help book about the different kinds of loss we experience over a lifetime, and the sorrow that accompanies them. In this guide, psychotherapist Nanette Burton Mongelluzzo considers the different ways we experience loss and grief, in all their variations—whether through the actual death of a loved one, including a beloved pet, or losses experienced through such events as divorce, medical problems, and natural disasters—and examines what these experiences do to us psychologically, biologically, and emotionally. She also offers understanding and the needed tools for moving through the various experiences, both big and small. Everyone is touched by loss. It begins early in our lives and continues through many ages and stages. Through the use of real-life vignettes, and fascinating facts on loss and grief within the American cultural landscape, this book provides both insight and comfort.