Alan D Wolfelt: 66 books
The Understanding Your Grief Journal
Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
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...
Healing Your Grief About Aging
100 Practical Ideas on Growing Older with Confidence, Meaning and Grace
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Getting older goes hand in hand with losses of many kinds—ending careers, empty nests, illness, the deaths of loved ones—and this book by one of the world's most beloved grief experts helps one acknowledge and mourn the many losses of aging while also offering advice for living better in old age....
by Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In light of how difficult it is just to survive the teenage years, the grieving process can be especially difficult and overwhelming for teenagers. This journal affirms the grieving teen's journey and offers gentle, healing guidance. In order to sort through their confusing feelings and thoughts,...
Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Helping widows and widowers learn how to cope with the grief of losing their helpmate, their lover, and perhaps their financial provider, this guide shows them how to find continued meaning in life when doing so seems difficult. Bereaved spouses will find advice on when and how to dispose of their...
Healing a Parent's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Your Child Dies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Presenting simple yet highly effective methods for coping and healing, this book provides answers and relief to parents trying to deal with the loss of a child. It offers 100 practical, action-oriented tips for embracing grief, such as writing a letter to the child who has died; spending time with...
The Understanding Your Suicide Grief Journal
Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
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.
Healing a Grandparent's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Your Grandchild Dies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This heartfelt manual is an indispensable and easily referenced resource for grieving grandparents, offering them a way forward after the death of a grandchild. Whether they were close to their grandchild and keenly feeling his or her absence, or even if they were not close to the child and are mourning...
The Wilderness of Suicide Grief
Finding Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
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...
The Journey Through Grief
Reflections on Healing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
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...
Living in the Shadow of the Ghosts of Your Grief
A Guide for Life, Living and Loving
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Explaining how multitudes of North Americans are carrying the pain of all types of loss-not just the deaths of loved ones but also the loss of a spouse through divorce, children who leave home, and the decline of health as they age or get sick-this balanced resource empowers mourners and grief counselors to turn...
Transcending Divorce
Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
With empathy and wisdom, this resource provides 10 essential touchstones for hope and healing when enduring a divorce while simultaneously dispelling common misconceptions associated with divorce. Stressing the importance of the need to fully mourn the loss of a relationship before moving on, this...
Healing Your Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, it explains how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings...
Understanding Your Grief
Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
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...
Understanding Your Suicide Grief
Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
Language: English
Release 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...