Understanding Your Suicide Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart (Understanding Your Grief) [Paperback]

Alan D. Wolfelt PhD (Author)

Book Description

Series: Understanding Your Grief | Publication Date: August 1, 2009

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.

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About the Author

Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD, is a grief counselor and the director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition. He is the author of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series, The Journey Through Grief, Transcending Divorce, and Understanding Your Grief. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Product Details

• Paperback: 194 pages
• Publisher: Companion Press; Original edition (August 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879651580
• ISBN-13: 978-1879651586
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #40 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Death & Grief > Suicide

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This review is from: Understanding Your Suicide Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart (Understanding Your Grief) (Paperback)

This book was extremely helpful. It gave me hope, knowledge and understanding. I would highly recommend this book more so than any other self-help book on this subject. Alan Wolfelt has wonderful insight. He is also a wonderful speaker on the subject of grief. We are so glad we came across him.