Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart PDF
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UnderstandingYour Grief Also by Alan Wolfelt Healing the Bereaved Child: Grief Gardening, Growth Through Grief and Other Touchstones for Caregivers Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas Healing A Friend’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Helping Someone You Love Through Loss Healing a Parent’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Child Dies 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 UnderstandingYour Grief Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Fort Collins, Colorado An imprint of the Center for Loss and Life Transition © 2003 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 the 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. Printed in the United States of America 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN: 1-879651-35-1 To the thousands of journeyers who have invited me to walk with them through the wilderness of their grief. What you have taught me I teach to others. Thank you for entrusting me with your stories. Contents Foreword i Preface iii Introduction 1 Touchstone 1 Open to the Presence of Your Loss 11 Touchstone 2 Dispel the Misconceptions About Grief 21 Touchstone 3 Embrace the Uniqueness of Your Grief 35 Touchstone 4 Explore Your Feelings of Loss 47 Touchstone 5 Recognize You Are Not Crazy 69 Touchstone 6 Understand the Six Needs of Mourning 87 Touchstone 7 Nurture Yourself 101 Touchstone 8 Reach Out for Help 125 Touchstone 9 Seek Reconciliation, Not Resolution 145 Touchstone 10 Appreciate Your Transformation 153 Directory of Organizations and Support Groups 163 Index 165
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