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After a significant loss, grief is an everyday experience. Bit by
bit, these one-page-a-day readings will help you feel supported and
muster the courage and hope you need to make it through the day.
Whether you’re choosing this book as a follow-up to Understanding
Your Grief or as a way to engage with the teachings in a different
format, you’ll find a combination of classic content mixed with
new ideas and insights. Reading just one page each day will help
you sustain hope and heal your heart.
This comprehensive guide to helping grieving children offers a
holistic view of grief as a normal, natural process. It explores
the ways in which bereaved children can not only heal but also grow
through their grief, and provides the six needs of mourning and
counseling fundamentals and techniques for caregivers. Also
included are explorations of how a grieving child thinks, feels,
and mourns; what makes each child's grief unique; and ideas to help
grieving adolescents.
More and more people are considering a career in nursing or
healthcare, but the thought of undertaking an academic degree at
university can be intimidating. Whether you are moving straight
from school or college or have been away from education for some
time, Getting Ready for your Nursing Degree is essential
preparation for anyone considering becoming or about to become a
nursing student. It looks at all aspects of university work in a
straightforward way and provides advice, examples and activities
designed to help you get the most out of classes, research and
assessments, from your first lecture right through to sitting exams
and learning on placement. Designed with nursing students in mind,
this small but perfectly formed guide is tailored to help you
develop the skills you will need not only for your course but for
your career and lifelong learning as a registered healthcare
practitioner.
Grief overload is what you feel when you experience too many
significant losses all at once, in a relatively short period of
time, or cumulatively. In addition to the deaths of loved ones,
such losses can also include divorce, estrangement, illness,
relocation, job changes, and more. Our minds and hearts have enough
trouble coping with a single loss, so when the losses pile up, the
grief often seems especially chaotic and defeating. The good news
is that through intentional, active mourning, you can and will find
your way back to hope and healing. This compassionate guide will
show you how.
Based on Dr. Wolfelt's unique and highly regarded philosophy of
"companioning" versus treating mourners, this self-care guide for
professional and lay grief caregivers emphasizes the importance of
taking good care of oneself as a precursor to taking good care of
others. Bereavement care is draining work, and remaining empathetic
to the painful struggles of mourners, death, and dying, day in and
day out, makes caregivers highly susceptible to burnout. This book
demonstrates how caring for oneself first allows one to be a more
effective caregiver to others. Through the advice, suggestions, and
practices directed specifically to caregiving situations and needs,
caregivers will learn not to lose sight of caring for themselves as
they care for others.
For most of us, life is way too hectic. We feel scattered and
distracted. We’re busy rushing from one required activity to the
next, and when we have a few moments of downtime, we’re often
glued to our electronics. Is this what life is really all about?
Learn to slow down and live more mindfully with this daily
companion. In one brief entry for each day of the calendar year,
counselor Dr. Alan Wolfelt offers small, day-at-a-time doses of
wisdom and practical guidance. Each entry includes an inspiring or
soothing quote followed by a short discussion of the day’s theme
as well as a succinct mantra to return to throughout the day. In
just a few minutes a day, this little gem of a book will teach you
to live every moment from a place of peace, purpose, and gratitude.
Living in the now is a habit you can cultivate. Let’s get
started.
We don’t only experience grief after a loss—we often experience
it before. If someone we love is seriously ill, or if we’re
concerned about upcoming hardships of any kind, we naturally begin
to grieve right now. This process of anticipatory grief is normal,
but it can also be confusing and painful. Life is change, and
change is hard. This book will help see you through.
You've spent most of your adult life focused on the care and
raising of your children, and now they're leaving. For you and for
them, this major transition is often challenging in many ways. You
may feel surprised at the power of your grief—a confusing mixture
of sadness, hope, emptiness, fear, excitement, and other emotions
all at once. This book by one of the world's most beloved grief
counselors helps parents understand their normal and necessary
empty nester grief. The 100 practical tips and activities are
designed to help you acknowledge and express your feelings of loss,
foster love and respect, and, over time, find ways to re-instill
your life with meaning. Advice is also offered for nurturing a
marriage or partnership through this challenging time.
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
This comprehensive handbook provides a solid foundation in helping
skills related to successful funeral service practice.
First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
This classic resource helps guide the bereaved person through the
loss of a loved one, and provides an opportunity to learn to live
with and work through the personal grief process.
This comprehensive handbook provides a solid foundation in helping
skills related to successful funeral service practice.
Clergy are in a natural position to help people who experience a
variety of losses, including death, divorce, moves, and
develop-mental transitions. Historically, clergy have been involved
as supporters of the bereaved, yet many clergy say that their
educa-tion lacked substantive teachings in this area of caring.
This book is a response to this apparent need. While directed at
clergy, anyone involved in this area of caregiving will find the
contents of value.
Guidelines are presented in the book of how one can create a
"helping healing relationship." Through reading and participating
in the activities presented, the reader will become capable of
establishing a very special kind of goal-directed experience with
the grieving child. Unites interpretation of human research and
grief processes to accentuate the quality of caregiving to children
during their grief periods. Explained are the stages through which
the grieving person must travel with help, characteristics of a
caregiver are expounded, and techniques presented to create the
best atmosphere for a grieving child to thrive with love and care.
For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one,
coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information
about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide
explores the unique responses inherent to their grief. Using
the metaphor of the wilderness, the book introduces 10 touchstones
to assist the survivor in this naturally complicated and
particularly painful journey. The touchstones include opening to
the presence of loss, embracing the uniqueness of grief,
understanding the six needs of mourning, reaching out for help, and
seeking reconciliation over resolution. Learning to identify and
rely on each of these touchstones will bring about hope and
healing.
When you want to have a baby but are struggling with fertility
challenges, it’s normal to experience a range and mixture of
ever-changing feelings. These feelings are a natural and necessary
form of grief. Whether you continue to hope to give birth or
you’ve stopped pursuing pregnancy, this compassionate guide will
help you affirm and express your feelings about infertility. Tips
for both women and men are included.
Grief is always difficult, but if yours feels especially painful,
stuck, or complex, you may be experiencing complicated grief.
Complicated grief is not an illness or disorder. It’s simply
normal grief that’s been made more challenging by circumstances
that overwhelm the person in mourning. If someone you love has died
of suicide, homicide, or accidental causes; if the death was
violent or premature or ambiguous; if you are struggling with
additional life issues right now, such as health challenges
(physical or mental), family problems, or financial stress; if your
relationship with the person who died was extremely close or
troubled; if you have suffered several losses in quick
succession—this concise guide is for you. In this compassionate
resource by one of the world’s most beloved grief counselors,
you’ll learn how complicated grief is different and what you can
do to soften and eventually reconcile it. You’ll inventory the
reasons your grief is complicated. You’ll learn the importance of
engaging with and expressing your grief. And you’ll find hope for
your healing. There is a path through and beyond the wilderness of
complicated grief. It’s more arduous than most, but to li
The Dementia Care Partner’s Workbook is a new resource from
Companion Press that is both a support group participant’s manual
and self-study guide for care partners who have a loved one with
Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia. Its ten concise
lessons not only walk you through the types, brain biology, and
progressive symptoms of dementia but also offer practical tips for
managing behaviors, coping with emotional issues, prioritizing
self-care, and planning ahead—everything from diagnosis to
end-of-life.The Manual provides general information about
establishing and leading support groups, counseling skills for
leaders and co-leaders, how to handle challenging group
participants, step-by-step instructions on how to run each of the
ten individual weekly meetings (including meeting-specific
handouts), and lots of practical advice.
Ironically, if you are lonely, you’re not alone. People the world
over are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness. In the US, one in
five of us reports feeling lonely, and almost half of seniors are
lonely on a regular basis. Loneliness hurts, and it can lead to
depression, addiction, physical problems, and other harmful
consequences. This compassionate guide offers a variety of
practical suggestions for reclaiming community and building
meaningful connections in ways that suit you. Finding your way back
to companionship and hope is not only possible, it’s essential.
You deserve to feel better. You deserve connection. This book will
help you find your way.
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