Healing the Adult Sibling's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Brother or Sister Dies (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) PDF
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HEALING THE ADULT SIBLING’S GRIEVING HEART Also by Alan Wolfelt: Creating Meaningful Funeral Ceremonies: A Guide for Families Healing a Child’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers Healing a Friend’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Helping Someone You Love Through Loss Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart The Wilderness of Grief: Finding Your Way Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids: 100 Practical Ideas The Journey Through Grief: Reflections on Healing Companion Press is dedicated to the education and support of both the bereaved and bereavement caregivers. We believe that those who companion the bereaved by walking with them as they journey in grief have a wondrous opportunity: to help others embrace and grow through grief—and to lead fuller, more deeply-lived lives themselves because of this important ministry. For a complete catalog and ordering information, write or call: Companion Press The Center for Loss and Life Transition 3735 Broken Bow Road Fort Collins, CO 80526 (970) 226-6050 www.centerforloss.com HEALING THE ADULT SIBLING’S GRIEVING HEART • 100 PRAcTIcAL IDEAS AfTER YoUR BRoTHER oR SISTER DIES • ALAN D. WoLfELT, PH.D. Fort Collins, Colorado An imprint of the Center for Loss and Life Transition © 2008 by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher. Companion Press is an imprint of the Center for Loss and Life Transition, 3735 Broken Bow Road, Fort Collins, Colorado 80526 970-226-6050 www.centerforloss.com Companion Press books may be purchased in bulk for sales promotions, premiums or fundraisers. Please contact the pub- lisher at the above address for more information. Printed in the United States of America 11 10 09 08 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN: 978-1-879651-29-6 This book is lovingly dedicated in memory of Mitch Anderson. Mitch Anderson and his sister, Amy foREWoRD Seven years ago, my life changed forever. It started with the fateful phone call from my panic-stricken mother. I will never forget that conversation. The moment in time is as real now as it was that day. Her piercing words are still ringing in my ears. The scream that erupted from my own lungs is still vivid and painful. My exact location, my clothing, the weather and even the short drive I had in front of me is so real, as if it just happened. Her words were, “Amy, your brother is dead.” And everything changed. My future changed. My past changed. My life changed. Forever. My strong, intelligent, “on-top-of-the-world,” entrepreneurial, well-liked, supportive, understanding, funny, charming, loving adult brother was gone. My best friend and confidant was gone. Forever. And my life would never be the same. My dreams for him, for our future together, were gone. I would never have a sister-in-law, a niece or nephew, a large Christmas gathering full of family…my family. The reality that I was “it”— alone, the only child, the only person left to take care of our
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