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 diary affirms the grieving teen's journey and offers gentle, healing guidance. In order to sort through their confusing feelings and thoughts, teens are prompted to explore simple, open-ended questions. Teens are encouraged to write what they miss about the person who died, the specific feelings that have been most difficult since the death, or the things they wish they had said to the person before they died.

Affirming a pet owner's struggle with grief when his or her pet dies, this book helps mourners understand why their feelings are so strong and helps them overcome the loss. Included are practical suggestions for mourning and ideas for remembering and memorializing one's pet. Among the issues covered are understanding the many emotions experienced after the death of a pet; understanding why grief for pets is unique; pet funerals and burial or cremation; celebrating and remembering the life of one's pet; coping with feelings about euthanasia; helping children understand the death of their pet;...

Offers advice on how to cope with the loss of a spouse and how to begin to move on.

Intended for nurses, doctors, midwives, social workers, chaplains, and hospital support staff, this guide gives caring and practical advice for helping families grieve properly after losing a child at birth. As the special needs of families experiencing perinatal loss are intense and require more than just the bereavement standards in most hospitals, this handbook offers tips and suggestions for opening up communication between caregivers and families, creating a compassionate bedside environment, and helping with mourning rituals. Encouraging continual grief support, these specific...

With compassionate insight, this handbook helps those in mourning through what can be the hardest time of yearthe holiday season. Mourners will better understand their complex emotions after reading about such topics as honoring thoughts and feelings, creating new traditions, finding ways to de-stress, and incorporating healing rituals into the holiday season. This book's practical wisdom also covers issues such as decision-making during the holidays and coping with the blending of mourning and celebration. All of the answers and advice in this guide are provided in the popular 100 ideas...

Explaining how multitudes of North Americans are carrying the pain of all types of lossnot just the deaths of loved ones but also the loss of a spouse through divorce, children who leave home, and the decline of health asthey age or get sickthis balanced resource empowersmourners and grief counselorstoturn grief into anexperience to belearned from.Defining the varieties ofheartache and its consequences, this effective guide explores how to inventory, understand, embrace, and reconcile one's accumulatedsorrow through a five-phase "catch-up" mourning process.Readerswill learn to use a spiritual...

Offers 100 practical ideas to help understand and accept the passing of a sibling in order to practice self-healing. This title defines the principles of grief and mourning. Whether a sibling has died as a young or older adult or the death was sudden or anticipated, it provides a healthy approach to dealing with the aftermath.

Offers information about coping for those who have experienced the suicide of a loved one, co-worker, neighbour, or acquaintance. This book explores the responses inherent to their grief. Using the metaphor of the wilderness, it introduces 10 touchstones to assist the survivor in this naturally complicated and particularly painful journey.

Helps grievers explore the 10 useful touchstones for finding hope and healing. This book contains exercises that recall the content of the book and ask corresponding questions about the survivor's unique grief journey.

Navigating the challenging journey that families and friends of Alzheimer's patients must endure, this heartfelt guide reveals how their struggle is as complex and drawn out as the illness itself. Confronting their natural but difficult process of grieving and mourning, the study covers the inevitable feelings of shock, sadness, anger, guilt, and relief, illustrating the initial reactions people commonly feel from the moment of the dementia's onset. Healthy and productive ways to acknowledge and express these feelings are suggested along with 100 tips and activities that fulfill the...