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.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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This book has been a great comfort to me during many moments of extreme loneliness and pain. Grieving can make you feel misunderstood, misplaced and lost -- and this author truly understands. Reading this compassionate book helped me realize that all of the extreme feelings one experiences while grieving are completely normal. The many written exercises in the book can be tough to work through, but they are healing. You could easily skip all the exercises and find comfort in reading the text alone. I also found this book very helpful in understanding and dealing with people who expect you to just "pick up the pieces" and get on with life right after the funeral. The book makes the point that Western society in general is guilty of encouraging those of us who mourn to cut our grieving process short. This book is perfect for the person grieving a loss, as a gift for a family member or friend who is grieving, or as a primer for those who are walking with someone through grief and would like some insight into the process and experience of grieving.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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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.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I learned about this book when I attended a hospice sponsored grief group
after the death of my father to cancer. This book combines good reading,
excellent guidance, and a way to do some journaling of thoughts.
I have given this book to family and friends who have lost loved ones to
cancer. It does make it easier to share feelings. A great tool in the
journey of grieving.
after the death of my father to cancer. This book combines good reading,
excellent guidance, and a way to do some journaling of thoughts.
I have given this book to family and friends who have lost loved ones to
cancer. It does make it easier to share feelings. A great tool in the
journey of grieving.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Understanding Grief:: Helping Yourself Heal
This is a very resourceful and thoughtful book. You really do learn that grief is a way to celebrate the life of the person that has died, and that it is ok to cry as often as you... Read more
Published 15 months ago by M K Ungren
Understanding Grief
Over 35 years in the Emergency Medical field this is by far one of the best books on grief that I have encountered. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Melvyn H. Mcclure
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. Read more
Published on April 8, 2008 by J. Starner
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Someone you love has died. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
grief journey, grief attacks, twelve freedoms, explosive emotions, many bereaved people, grief experience, continued meaning, complicated grief, central needs, bereaved person Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Someone you love has died. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
grief journey, grief attacks, twelve freedoms, explosive emotions, many bereaved people, grief experience, continued meaning, complicated grief, central needs, bereaved person Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Memory Book, Understanding Grief, Higher Power, Explanation of Content Try New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis on page 1, and page 3
- Helping Children Cope With Grief by Alan Wolfelt on page 199
- On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on page 9
- Bill of Rights by Instructor Books on page 178
- When All the Friends Have Gone: A Guide for Aftercare Providers (Death, Value and Meaning) by O. Duane, Ph.D. Weeks on 4 pages
- Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas by Alan Wolfelt in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Living Poems, Writing Lives: Spirit, Self, And The Art Of Poetry by Reggie Marra on page 195, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Midlife Orphan: Facing Life's Changes Now That Your Parents Are Gone by Jane Brooks on page 38, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Living With Grief: After Sudden Loss Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, Stroke by Kenneth J. Doka in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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