Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas

by Alan D. Wolfelt

Book Overview

100 ideas for offering specific, here-and-now suggestions for helping mourners heal or assist the reader in comforting a friend through that journey. Dr. Wolfelt provides brief discussions of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879651254
• ISBN13: 9781879651258
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Companion Press (CO)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent!

I am using this book for a Loss Support Group for senior citizens in an Adult Day Care. I've adapted some of the ideas to meet our needs. It is EXCELLENT!

Compassionate companioning

In this easy to read little book Dr Wolfelt, an incredibly empathic thanantologist, gives us down to earth ideas on how to survive the grieving process. Through these practical suggestions we are helped to move beyond silent grief to mourning - an essential element if we are to transcend our grief and become whole again. Open to any page and begin the self compassionate process of surviving and taking tiny steps toward living and loving again with our loved one in a secure and special but different place in our lives.

Useful and important information

If you liked this book, also try "The Healing Journey Through Grief" by Phil Rich. This is a self help journaling book that will help you to understand, work through, and write about your bereavement. There are other books in the "Healing Journey" series too that are worth checking out. including books (all called "The Healing Journey" and all by Phil Rich and other co-authors) including a books on journaling for individuals (The Healing Journey) and one on journaling for couples("The Healing Journey for Couples") and others ("The Healing Journey Through...") divorce, menopause, job loss, retirement, and addiction.