Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

by Alan D. Wolfelt

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879651351
• ISBN13: 9781879651357
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Companion Press (CO)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Understanding your grief

Extremely Helpful

Understanding Grief

This is an excellent book. It is a good self-help book. I lost my mother over a year ago and I have just read it in the last few weeks. It really helps one to understand that what they are going through is normal. I highly recommend this book to anyone that is going through the grief and mourning process of losing someone that you loved very much. It has helped me so much.

Understanding Your Grief

I love Wolfelt's work and find it very useful information! I have already used several pieces of information from the book!

An Organized Approach to Dealing with Grief

Enduring the pain of losing a loved one is certainly among life's biggest trials, and there is no "quick fix" for dealing with the grief. Before you can solve a problem you must understand it, so it's helpful to have some expert assistance for such a big endeavor. This book offers a step-by-step guide through the process, answering tough questions, dispelling myths, and dispensing advice along the way. Dr. Wolfelt is a compassionate, experienced and knowledgeable voice who presents his approach to the grieving process logically and efficiently. Ten "touchstones" make up the pathway, labeled with words like dispel, embrace, recognize, and nurture. Taking an organized approach to something like grief might sound impossible, but it may well be a critical part of making it through a very difficult time.

Invaluable, infomrative, comforting, encouraging.

Understanding Grief is a compassionate, effective guide to coping with the death of a loved one. Alan Wolfelt presents more than 100 workshops a year for hospices, schools, funeral homes, community groups and service organizations and shared his expertise in helping bereaved people move toward healing by encouraging them to explore their unique journeys into grief and mourning. Understanding Grief covers such issues as common myths about grief and mourning, what to expect, taking care of oneself in the grieving process, when additional help is needed, helping guidelines for support groups, and helping a friend in grief. Readers are asked specific questions about their personal grief journeys and encouraged to thing about and write down their responses. Understanding Grief is an invaluable, informative, comforting, and encouraging book that is highly recommended for personal, counseling center, and public library grief management collections.

Sensitive and useful

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.