Companion Press: 72 books
The Depression of Grief
Coping with Your Sadness and Knowing When to Get Help
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Recognizing that depression is a normal and natural component of grief, this compassionate guide helps mourners understand their depression, express it in healing ways, and know when they may be experiencing a more severe or clinical depression that would be eased by professional treatment. It proposes...
The Wilderness of Divorce
Finding Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Addressing a significant loss in life, this guidebook enables those who have experienced a divorce to mourn sufficiently and begin to heal. Delving into the 10 essential touchstones of the healing process, this resource encourages the exploration of feelings of loss, identifying the specific needs...
The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide
Starting and Leading a Bereavement Support Group
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
This guide to facilitating support groups offers bereavement caregivers practical strategies for creating and maintaining a productive environment for mourners. Logistical considerations such as setting up and publicizing a new group are discussed, as is the importance of prescreening new members....
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,...
Companioning the Dying
A Soulful Guide for Counselors & Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
This guide for counselors and lay caregivers explores the art of caring for the dying and their families. Based on the tenets first articulated by renowned grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, this respectful and gratifying guide to caregiving includes personal accounts that debunk the myth of the "good...
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...
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...
Companioning the Bereaved
A Soulful Guide for Counselors & Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Renowned author and educator Alan Wolfelt redefines the role of the grief counselor in this guide for caregivers. His new model for "companioning" the bereaved gives a viable alternative to the limitations of the medical establishment, encouraging counselors and other caregivers to aspire...
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...
The Companioning the Grieving Child Curriculum Book
Activities to Help Children and Teens Heal
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Based on Alan Wolfelt’s six needs of mourning and written to pair with Companioning the Grieving Child, this thorough guide provides hundreds of hands-on activities tailored for grieving children in three age groups: preschool, elementary, and teens. Through the use of readings, games, discussion...