Understanding Your Suicide Grief
Understanding Your Suicide Grief

Author: Alan D. Wolfelt

Publisher: Companion Press

Published: 2009-08-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1879651580

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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.

Understanding Your Grief
Understanding Your Grief

Author: Alan D. Wolfelt

Publisher: Companion Press

Published: 2004-02-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1879651351

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Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed as well. The rights of mourners to be compassionate with themselves, to lean on others for help, and to trust in their ability to heal are upheld. Journaling sections encourage mourners to articulate their unique thoughts and feelings.

The Understanding Your Grief Journal
The Understanding Your Grief Journal

Author: Alan D. Wolfelt

Publisher: Companion Press

Published: 2004-04-01

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1879651394

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This companion workbook to Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart is designed to help mourners explore the many facets of their unique grief through journaling. Ten essential touchstones for mourners are covered, including being open to the presence of loss, dispelling misconceptions about grief, embracing the uniqueness of grief, seeking reconciliation, and reaching out for help. Journalers are asked specific questions about their feelings of grief as they relate to the ten essential touchstones and are provided with writing space for their reflections.

The Wilderness of Suicide Grief
The Wilderness of Suicide Grief

Author: Alan D. Wolfelt

Publisher: Companion Press

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1879651688

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Presenting the idea of wilderness as a sustained metaphor for grief, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to the grief felt by those who have experienced the suicide of a loved one and offers information about coping with such a profound loss. Likening the death of a loved one to the experience of being wrenched from normal life and dropped down in the middle of nowhere, the handbook employs 10 touchstones, or trail markers, that survivors use to begin to make their way through the new landscape. Each touchstone gently guides readers through the entire grieving process and includes topics such as dispelling misconceptions regarding suicide, exploring feelings, and embracing the uniqueness of a loss.

The Understanding Your Suicide Grief Journal
The Understanding Your Suicide Grief Journal

Author: Alan D. Wolfelt

Publisher: Companion Press

Published: 2009-08-01

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1617221244

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With ample space to unburden the heart and the soul, this companion workbook helps grievers explore the 10 essential touchstones for finding hope and healing. The exercises throughout the journal recall the content of the book and ask corresponding questions about the survivor's unique grief journey.

Understanding Grief
Understanding Grief

Author: Alan Wolfelt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1135059292

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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.

Grief After Suicide
Grief After Suicide

Author: John R. Jordan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-01-19

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 1135849269

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A suicide leaves behind more victims than just the individual. And yet there are very few professional resources that provide the necessary background, research, and tools to effectively work with the survivors. This edited volume addresses the need for an up-to-date, professionally oriented summary of the clinical and research literature on the impact of suicide bereavement on survivors.

After Suicide Loss
After Suicide Loss

Author: Bob Baugher

Publisher:

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 9780963597557

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If you have experienced the death of a loved one from suicide, this book is for you. With contributions of many people who have been through the experience and two Psychologists who have helped hundreds of people bereaved by suicide, this book takes the reader through the first few days, weeks, months and years.

Grieving a Suicide
Grieving a Suicide

Author: Albert Y. Hsu

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2017-07-04

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 0830883975

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Albert Y. Hsu wrestles with emotional and spiritual questions surrounding suicide, ultimately pointing survivors to the God who offers comfort in our grief and hope for the future. This revised edition now includes a discussion guide for suicide survivor groups.

Understanding Your Suicide Grief
Understanding Your Suicide Grief

Author: Alan D. Wolfelt

Publisher: Companion Press

Published: 2009-08-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 161722121X

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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.