Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas [Paperback]

Alan Wolfelt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1998

This book offers 100 practical here-and-now suggestions for helping yourself mourn so that you may live well and love well again.

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About the Author

Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD, is an internationally known teacher, a grief counselor, and the author of The Journey Through Grief and The Understanding Your Grief Journal. He is director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition and faculty member at the University of Colorado Medical School’s department of family medicine. He is the “Children and Grief” columnist for Bereavement magazine and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, and NBC’s Today. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879651122
• ISBN-13: 978-1879651128
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,040,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Compassionate companioning, June 11, 2000

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Maureen Fanelli (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas (Paperback)

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars KRH, June 4, 2010

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Kevin R. Hackett (Enid, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) (Paperback)

This book is very good for dealing with grief. I lost my wife at 54 after a 15 month battle with cancer about 4 months ago. I had heard the author as as a speaker previously. I bought this book for my adult children (29 & 26) after the loss of their mother. I bought the companion book (for Spouses)for myself. When I lost my bother (at 61)a little over a month ago I bought this book for his adult child (who was really struggling as they had not had a good relationship for a long while) and the companion book for his spouse. They have all said it was very helpful.
His various books on 100 ways to Heal Your Grieving Heart are really thought provoking and helpful. They are short and easy to work to read and put to practice. I plan to buy more as time goes on to help others in need. Losing a love one is very difficult and this book helps to work through the challenging process of morning and grief, male or female.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, November 24, 2009

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Lisa H. Jenkins "Lisa J" (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) (Paperback)

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!