Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

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Companion Press, Feb 1, 2004 - Self-Help - 176 pages
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. This replaces 1559590386.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Touchstone 1
11
Touchstone 2
21
Touchstone 3
35
Touchstone 4
47
Touchstone 5
69
Touchstone 6
87
Touchstone 7
101
Touchstone 8
125
Touchstone 9
145
Touchstone 10
153
Directory of Organizations and Support Groups
163
Index
165
Back
177
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About the author (2004)

Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD, 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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