Healing Your Grieving Heart
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Healing Grief at Work
100 Practical Ideas After Your Workplace Is Touched by Loss
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
With a gentle and considerate style, this handbook explores what happens when grief and the workplace meet, and the drastic effects of grieving on employees, their performance, and the overall workplace environment. Touching on the different kinds of grief workers can experience, such as death, divorce, and layoffs, the effective ways to channel grief during the workday, how to support coworkers who mourn, participation in group memorials, and negotiating appropriate bereavement leave, this concise and practical resource gives both ideas for the mourner and the mourner's coworkers. A special introduction for employers, owners, managers, and human resource personnel addresses the economic impact of grief in the workplace and provides practical and cost effective ideas for maintaining morale and creating a productive yet compassionate work environment.
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Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens
100 Practical Ideas
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies. Each book, geared for mourning adults, teens, or children, provides ideas and action-oriented tips that teach the basic principles of grief and healing. These ideas and activities are aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void so that the living can begin their lives again. Included in the books for teens and kids are age-appropriate activities that teach younger people that their thoughts are not only normal but necessary.
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Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids
100 Practical Ideas
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies. Each book, geared for mourning adults, teens, or children, provides ideas and action-oriented tips that teach the basic principles of grief and healing. These ideas and activities are aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void so that the living can begin their lives again. Included in the books for teens and kids are age-appropriate activities that teach younger people that their thoughts are not only normal but necessary.
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Healing Your Grieving Heart After Stillbirth
100 Practical Ideas for Parents and Families
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
Beloved grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt compassionately explores the common feelings of shock, anger, guilt, and sadness that accompany a stillborn child, offering suggestions for expressing feelings, remembering the child, and healing as a family. Ideas to help each unique person-mother, father, grandparent, sibling, friend-are included, as are thoughts from families who experienced a stillbirth. This new addition to Dr. Wolfelt's popular series is a healing companion to families when they need it most.
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Healing After Job Loss
100 Practical Ideas
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
Full of practical, time-tested counsel, this handbook offers simple, useful tips and activities to counter the typically negative reactions to job loss, such as loss of self esteem, and explores thoughts and feelings with the goal of healing. Whether discussing situations when companies have been downsized or individuals have been fired, furloughed, or laid off, this guide provides a healthy way of dealing with often overwhelming feelings-of anger, anxiety, depression, and hopelessness-in a healthy, hopeful manner.
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Healing Your Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, it explains how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies. Each book, geared for mourning adults, teens, or children, provides ideas and action-oriented tips that teach the basic principles of grief and healing. These ideas and activities are aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void so that living their lives can begin again.
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Healing After Divorce
100 Practical Ideas for Kids
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
Focusing on the natural grief children endure when their parents divorce, this guide helps kids process the common feelings of shock, sadness, anger, guilt, and relief while highlighting their most vital need-love and support. The handbook helps children name and understand these strange new emotions and affirms that their thoughts and feelings are natural while teaching them the value of constructively expressing them. An assortment of suggested physical and verbal activities for mourning grief are also included.
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Healing Your Grief About Aging
100 Practical Ideas on Growing Older with Confidence, Meaning and Grace
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
Getting older goes hand in hand with losses of many kinds-ending careers, empty nests, illness, the deaths of loved ones-and this book by one of the world's most beloved grief experts helps one acknowledge and mourn the many losses of aging while also offering advice for living better in old age. The 100 practical tips and activities address the emotional, spiritual, cognitive, social, and physical needs of seniors who want to age authentically and gracefully, and each idea also includes a seize-the-day action to live fully and with joy in the present moment. For those who've just entered their 50s or are well on their way to the century mark, this book promises elder-friendly tips for comfort, laughter, and inspiration.
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The Healing Your Grieving Heart Journal for Teens
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
In light of how difficult it is just to survive the teenage years, the grieving process can be especially difficult and overwhelming for teenagers. This journal affirms the grieving teen's journey and offers gentle, healing guidance. In order to sort through their confusing feelings and thoughts, teens are prompted to explore simple, open-ended questions. Teens are encouraged to write what they miss about the person who died, the specific feelings that have been most difficult since the death, or the things they wish they had said to the person before they died.
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Healing the Adult Sibling's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Your Brother or Sister Dies
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
Compassionate and heartfelt, this collection offers 100 practical ideas to help understand and accept the passing of a sibling in order to practice self-healing. The principles of grief and mourning are clearly defined, accompanied by action-oriented tips for embracing bereavement. Whether a sibling has died as a young or older adult or the death was sudden or anticipated, this resource provides a healthy approach to dealing with the aftermath.
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Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
Helping widows and widowers learn how to cope with the grief of losing their helpmate, their lover, and perhaps their financial provider, this guide shows them how to find continued meaning in life when doing so seems difficult. Bereaved spouses will find advice on when and how to dispose of their mate's belongings, dealing with their children, and redefining their role with friends and family. Suggestions are provided for elderly mourners, young widows and widowers, unmarried lovers, and same-sex partners. The information and comfort offered apply to individuals whose spouse died recently or long ago.
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Healing Your Grieving Heart When Someone You Care About Has Alzheimer's
100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends, and Caregivers
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
Navigating the challenging journey that families and friends of Alzheimer's patients must endure, this heartfelt guide reveals how their struggle is as complex and drawn out as the illness itself. Confronting their natural but difficult process of grieving and mourning, the study covers the inevitable feelings of shock, sadness, anger, guilt, and relief, illustrating the initial reactions people commonly feel from the moment of the dementia's onset. Healthy and productive ways to acknowledge and express these feelings are suggested along with 100 tips and activities that fulfill the emotional, spiritual, cognitive, physical, and social needs of those who care about someone afflicted with this debilitating disease. Special consideration is also shown for caregivers, whose grief is often complicated by the demanding physical attention that patients require.
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Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Your Parent Dies
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
Offering heartfelt and simple advice, this book provides realistic suggestions and relief for an adult child whose parent has died. Practical advice is presented in a one-topic-per-page format that does not overwhelm with psychological language, but provides small, immediate ways to understand and reconcile grief. Some of the action-oriented tips include writing down memories, completing a task or goal left unfinished by your deceased parent, or honoring the parent's birthday. In addition the common challenges that face grieving adult children, such as helping the surviving parent, resolving sibling conflicts, and legal and financial issues, are addressed clearly and concisely.
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Healing Your Grieving Body
100 Physical Practices for Mourners
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
Acknowledging the unique set of symptoms that accompanies a period of mourning, this guide is the ideal companion to weathering the storm of physical distress. From muscle aches and pains to problems with eating and sleeping, this handbook addresses how the body responds to the impact of profound loss. Low energy, headaches, and other conditions are also taken into account. With 100 ways to help soothe the body and calm the mind, this compassionate study is an excellent resource in understanding the connection between the two.
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Healing Your Holiday Grief
100 Practical Ideas for Blending Mourning and Celebration During the Holiday Season
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
With compassionate insight, this handbook helps those in mourning through what can be the hardest time of year-the holiday season. Mourners will better understand their complex emotions after reading about such topics as honoring thoughts and feelings, creating new traditions, finding ways to de-stress, and incorporating healing rituals into the holiday season. This book's practical wisdom also covers issues such as decision-making during the holidays and coping with the blending of mourning and celebration. All of the answers and advice in this guide are provided in the popular 100 ideas format that features one idea per page, allowing readers to fully absorb each suggestion.
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Healing Your Grieving Soul
100 Spiritual Practices for Mourners
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
Following a helpful introduction about the role of spirituality in grief, this practical mourning guide suggests activities based on meditation, prayer, yoga, and contemplative solitude to help with feelings of despair. For mourners who suffer from anxiety, breathing exercises are recommended, and massage is suggested for those who experience fatigue. Each description of these practices offers a brief activity to try out before continuing to read.
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Healing the Empty Nester's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas for Parents After the Kids Move Out, Go Off to College, or Start Taking Flight
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.
Part of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series
You've spent most of your adult life focused on the care and raising of your children, and now they're leaving. For you and for them, this major transition is often challenging in many ways. You may feel surprised at the power of your grief-a confusing mixture of sadness, hope, emptiness, fear, excitement, and other emotions all at once. This book by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors helps parents understand their normal and necessary empty nester grief. The 100 practical tips and activities are designed to help you acknowledge and express your feelings of loss, foster love and respect, and, over time, find ways to re-instill your life with meaning. Advice is also offered for nurturing a marriage or partnership through this challenging time.
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