Too Much Loss: Coping with Grief Overload

Too Much Loss: Coping with Grief Overload

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  • Author: Alan Wolfelt
  • Publisher: Companion Press
  • ISBN: 1617222887
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 56

Grief overload is what you feel when you experience too many significant losses all at once, in a relatively short period of time, or cumulatively. In addition to the deaths of loved ones, such losses can also include divorce, estrangement, illness, relocation, job changes, and more. Our minds and hearts have enough trouble coping with a single loss, so when the losses pile up, the grief often seems especially chaotic and defeating. The good news is that through intentional, active mourning, you can and will find your way back to hope and healing. This compassionate guide will show you how.


Nature Heals

Nature Heals

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  • Author: Alan Wolfelt
  • Publisher: Companion Press
  • ISBN: 1617223026
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 58

When we're grieving, we need relief from our pain. Today we often turn to technology for distraction when what we really need is the opposite: generous doses of nature. Studies show that time spent outdoors lowers blood pressure, eases depression and anxiety, bolsters the immune system, lessens stress, and even makes us more compassionate. This guide to the tonic of nature explores why engaging with the natural world is so effective at helping reconcile grief. It also offers suggestions for bringing short bursts of nature time (indoors and outdoors) into your everyday life as well as tips for actively mourning in nature. This book is your shortcut to hope and healing...the natural way.


The Guilt of Grief

The Guilt of Grief

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  • Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
  • Publisher: Words of Hope and Healing
  • ISBN: 9781617223150
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 56

We don't only experience grief after a loss--we often experience it before. If someone we love is seriously ill, or if we're concerned about upcoming hardships of any kind, we naturally begin to grieve right now. This process of anticipatory grief is normal, but it can also be confusing and painful. Life is change, and change is hard. This book will help see you through.


When Your Friend Dies

When Your Friend Dies

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  • Author: Harold Ivan Smith
  • Publisher: Augsburg Books
  • ISBN: 9781451409512
  • Category : Self-Help
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 68

Many of us will grieve the death of a friend. Yet, this particular kind of grief is not recognized as often as that experienced when a spouse, child, or parent dies. Grief counselor and speaker Harold Ivan Smith has worked with "friend grief" both professionally and personally. In this short volume, he offers comfort and encouragement to those who have lost a friend by validating their grief, urging them to give their grief a voice, and remembering their friend.


The Companioning the Grieving Child Curriculum Book

The Companioning the Grieving Child Curriculum Book

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  • Author: Patricia Morrissey
  • Publisher: Companion Press
  • ISBN: 1617221872
  • Category : Self-Help
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 154

Based on Alan Wolfelt's six needs of mourning and written to pair with Companioning the Grieving Child, this thorough guide provides hundreds of hands-on activities tailored for grieving children in three age groups: preschool, elementary, and teens. Through the use of readings, games, discussion questions, and arts and crafts, caregivers can help grieving young people acknowledge the reality of the death, embrace the pain of the loss, remember the person who died, develop a new self-identity, search for meaning, and accept support. Sample activities include grief sock puppets, expression bead bracelets, the nurturing game, and writing an autobiographical poem. Activities are presented in an easy-to-follow format, and each has a goal, an objective, a sequential description of the activity, and a list of needed materials.


The Journey Through Grief

The Journey Through Grief

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  • Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
  • Publisher: Companion Press
  • ISBN: 1617220973
  • Category : Self-Help
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 60

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.


Understanding Your Suicide Grief

Understanding Your Suicide Grief

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  • Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
  • Publisher: Companion Press
  • ISBN: 1879651580
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 242

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.


Healing Your Traumatized Heart

Healing Your Traumatized Heart

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  • Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
  • Publisher: Companion Press
  • ISBN: 1879651327
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 125

Dealing with grief in a practical manner, this guide offers compassionate tips for those affected by a traumatic death. Included are topics such as coping with family stress, expressing feelings of hurt and anger, dealing with hurtful comments, and exploring feelings of guilt. Each of the 100 suggestions is aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void in order to help survivors begin their lives again. Some of the tips include understanding the special characteristics of trauma grief, planting a tree in memory of the person who died, and making connections with others affected by a similar death.


Grief One Day at a Time

Grief One Day at a Time

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  • Author: Dr. Alan Wolfelt
  • Publisher: Companion Press
  • ISBN: 1617222402
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 466

After a loved one dies, each day can be a struggle. But each day, you can also find comfort and understanding in this daily companion. With one brief entry for every day of the calendar year, this little book by beloved grief counselor Dr. Alan Wolfelt offers small, one-day-at-a-time doses of guidance and healing. Each entry includes an inspiring or soothing quote followed by a short discussion of the day's theme. This compassionate gem of a book will accompany you.


Understanding Your Grief

Understanding Your Grief

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  • Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
  • Publisher: Companion Press
  • ISBN: 1879651351
  • Category : Self-Help
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 194

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.