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

Understanding Your Grief is a favorite by grief counselors, helping mourners understand and befriend their painful thoughts and feelings after the death of a loved one. It is practical and based on Dr. Wolfelt's Ten Touchstones, providing concise wisdom on new topics such as closure, complicated and traumatic grief, grief overload, loneliness, the power of ritual, and more. It is an empathetic handbook for anyone in mourning and a text for support groups.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2021
Publisher: Companion Press,US

Since its debut thirty years ago, this beloved book by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors has found a place in the homes and hearts of hundreds of thousands of mourners across the globe. Filled with compassion and hope, Understanding Your Grief helps you understand and befriend your painful, complex thoughts and feelings after the death of someone loved. Befriending grief may sound counterintuitive, but actually, your grief is your love for the person who died in a different form, and like that love, it's also natural and necessary. Perhaps above all, Understanding Your Grief is practical. Its built on Dr. Wolfelt's Ten Touchstones, which are basic principles to learn and actions to take to help yourself engage with your grief and create momentum toward healing. This second edition maintains the content of the first edition but builds on it by adding concise wisdom on new topics such as the myth of closure, complicated and traumatic grief, grief overload, unmourned grief, loneliness, the power of ritual, and more. Excellent as an empathetic handbook for anyone in mourning as well as a text for support groups, Understanding Your Grief pairs with a guided journal.

Since its debut thirty years ago, this beloved book by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors has found a place in the homes and hearts of hundreds of thousands of mourners across the globe. Filled with compassion and hope, Understanding Your Grief helps you understand and befriend your painful, complex thoughts and feelings after the death of someone loved. Befriending grief may sound counterintuitive, but actually, your grief is your love for the person who died in a different form, and like that love, it's also natural and necessary. Perhaps above all, Understanding Your Grief is practical. Its built on Dr. Wolfelt's Ten Touchstones, which are basic principles to learn and actions to take to help yourself engage with your grief and create momentum toward healing. This second edition maintains the content of the first edition but builds on it by adding concise wisdom on new topics such as the myth of closure, complicated and traumatic grief, grief overload, unmourned grief, loneliness, the power of ritual, and more. Excellent as an empathetic handbook for anyone in mourning as well as a text for support groups, Understanding Your Grief pairs with a guided journal.

Weight: 338g
Dimension: 140 x 215 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781617223075