Monkey Mind

Monkey Mind
Author: Daniel Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-06-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439177317

Shares the author's personal experiences with anxiety, describing its painful coherence and absurdities while sharing the stories of other sufferers to illustrate anxiety's intellectual history and influence.

When Children Grieve

When Children Grieve
Author: John W. James
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2010-06-22
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0062015486

"Once in a generation, a book comes along that alters the way society views a topic. When Children Grieve is an essential primer for parents and others who interact with children on a regular basis." — Bernard McGrane, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Chapman University and U.C. Irvine The first—and definitive—guide to helping children really deal with loss from the authors of the The Grief Recovery Handbook Following deaths, divorces, pet loss, or the confusion of major relocation, many adults tell their children “don’t feel bad.” In fact, say the authors of the bestselling The Grief Recovery Handbook, feeling bad or sad is precisely the appropriate emotion attached to sad events. Encouraging a child to bypass grief without completion can cause unseen long-term damage. When Children Grieve helps parents break through the misinformation that surrounds the topic of grief. It pinpoints the six major myths that hamper children in adapting to life’s inevitable losses. Practical and compassionate, it guides parents in creating emotional safety and spells out specific actions to help children move forward successfully.

Grief Recovery Handbook, The (Revised)

Grief Recovery Handbook, The (Revised)
Author: John W. James
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1998-06-23
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0060952733

The authors share their own stories of loss and, based on their work at the Grief Recovery Institute, provide a set of guidelines for help.

Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart

Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart
Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2002-09-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1617220612

Offering heartfelt and simple advice, this book provides realistic suggestions and relief for an adult child whose parent has died. Practical advice is presented in a one-topic-per-page format that does not overwhelm with psychological language, but provides small, immediate ways to understand and reconcile grief. Some of the action-oriented tips include writing down memories, completing a task or goal left unfinished by your deceased parent, or honoring the parent’s birthday. In addition the common challenges that face grieving adult children, such as helping the surviving parent, resolving sibling conflicts, and legal and financial issues, are addressed clearly and concisely.

Grief Recovery for Teens

Grief Recovery for Teens
Author: Coral Popowitz
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1626258554

Did you know that grief can affect both your mind and your body? In this helpful and healing guide, the director of the Children’s Grief Connection offers practices to help you deal with the physical aspects of grief and loss. If you lose someone you love or are close to, you probably feel a number of emotions—sadness, anger, loneliness, or fear. These are all normal feelings, and it’s important that you have someone to talk to, whether it’s a family member, friend, or counselor. But did you know that grief can also affect your body? That’s because the brain and the body are much more connected than you might think. In this compassionate guide, you’ll discover how your mind can affect the way you feel physically, and discover body-oriented skills to help your body heal after experiencing loss. You’ll also find ways to relieve feelings of anxiety and confusion that can make your physical symptoms worse, and finally begin the healing process. Knowing how your body is affected by grief and loss—and what you can do to relieve the physical and emotional pain—will give you healthy coping skills to last a lifetime. This book will help you learn these skills and start feeling better in both body and mind.

Grief Day by Day

Grief Day by Day
Author: Alan D Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2018-10-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1617222704

When we are grieving the death of someone loved, we may struggle with making it through each day. How are we supposed to cope with our gut-wrenching grief and live our daily lives at the same time? What should we do with our chaotic, painful, and intrusive thoughts and feelings? How do we survive? And is it possible to both grieve and live with meaning and hope? If you've been asking yourself such questions, this book by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors provides affirmation and answers. Rituals give us something to do with our grief. Simple, everyday practices can give structure to our grief and hold us up us when we're feeling like we might collapse. In fact, when we're in grief, rituals are essentially effective beelines to healing. Learn what makes a ritual a ritual. (Spoiler alert: Rituals can be easy and fast!) Try some of the many solo rituals gathered here, such as letter writing, meditating, intentional emoting, grief walks, and the 10-minute grief encounter. And reach out to friends and loved ones who might like to get together for one of the simple group ceremonies. By incorporating the healing power of ritual into your days, you'll be not only surviving your grief, you'll be building in meaning and hope so that you can go on to thrive.

The Journey Through Grief

The Journey Through Grief
Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2003-09-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1617220973

This spiritual companion for mourners affirms their need to mourn and invites them to journey through their very unique and personal grief. Detailed are the six needs that all mourners must yield to and eventually embrace if they are to go on to find continued meaning in life and living, including the need to remember the deceased loved one and the need for support from others. Short explanations of each mourning need are followed by brief, spiritual passages that, when read slowly and reflectively, help mourners work through their unique thoughts and feelings. Also included in this revised edition are journaling sections for mourners to write out their personal responses to each of the six needs. This replaces 1879651114.

Healing a Child's Grieving Heart

Healing a Child's Grieving Heart
Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2001-04-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1617220426

A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say—or what not to say—to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches that the most important thing a person can do is listen, have compassion, be there for support, and do something helpful. This volume addresses what to expect from grieving young people, and how to provide safe outlets for children to express emotion. Included in each book are tested, sensitive ideas for “carpe diem” actions that people can take right this minute—while still remaining supportive and honoring the mourner’s loss.

The Grief Recovery Kit

The Grief Recovery Kit
Author: Tanya Kilgore
Publisher: Aepisaurus Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-11-11
Genre: Bereavement in adolescence
ISBN: 9780983568803

This interactive tool is designed to assist young people in the grieving process after loss, separation, or death, helping them navigate through the healing process into a strong and hopeful future. Filled with graphics, photos, characters, and straightforward language, the information is directed toward a younger audience but can be used by people of any age experiencing grief. The book contains four stories of different losses, allowing the griever to identify with the characters and their situations. Through practical activities, encouragement, and messages of hope, this kit empowers the griever to face painful issues head-on and promotes steps of progression, which ultimately shift valuable energy toward recovery. Blank journal pages are also provided to openly express thoughts and feelings through words and drawings.

The Grief Recovery Handbook for Pet Loss

The Grief Recovery Handbook for Pet Loss
Author: Russell Friedman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 9781630760144

If you've found yourself almost inconsolable after your pet died, please know that you're normal. If you've found that your family and friends don't seem to understand the level of your grief, please know that, too, is normal. Without comparing our relationships with our pets to those with people, we know that, because of the unique emotional relationships we have with our pets, their deaths produce a level of pain that is difficult to describe. If you relate to any or all of these sentences, this book is for you. We have been there and most probably will be there again. We will be with you on this journey to help your heart deal with the absence of your cherished companion. --Russell, Cole, and John Your relationship with your pet is special--it's a bond that is very different than those that human beings share with each other. When a beloved pet passes away, people often resort to incorrect mechanisms to deal with the grief, such as trying to move too quickly past the loss (dismissing the real impact), or even attempting to replace the pet immediately. However, these are merely two myths out of six that the authors discuss and dismantle in The Grief Recovery Handbook for Pet Loss. Based on the authors' Grief Recovery Method(R), this book addresses how losing a pet is different from losing a human loved one, and ultimately, how to move on with life.