Grief/Loss > Professional/Educator/Parent
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Healing Your Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas 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 of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies. Each book, geared for mourning adults, teens, or children, provides ideas and action-oriented tips that teach the basic principles of grief and healing. These ideas and activities are aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void so that living their lives can begin again. (Healing Your Grieving Heart Series)
$17.95
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Dr. Alan Wolfelt Healing Your Grieving Heart After a Cancer Diagnosis
100 Practical Ideas for Coping, Surviving, and Thriving This empathetic guide coauthored by cancer survivor Dr. Alan Wolfelt helps individuals understand and cope with the many difficult thoughts and feelings to which a cancer diagnosis can give rise, assisting them as they find ways to experience peace and joy throughout their journey. Among the 100 ideas for surviving and thriving in this book are those that explain the basic principles of grief and mourning and how they apply to a life-altering, life-threatening, or terminal medical diagnosis. Others offer instantaneous, in-the-moment suggestions of things that cancer patients can do immediately in order to express their grief and live with meaning in each moment.
$15.95
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Alan Wolfelt Healing Your Grieving Heart After Miscarriage: 100 Practical Ideas for Parents and Families
This compassionate guide contains 100 practical ideas to help those affected by the tragedy of miscarriage, from teaching the principles of grief and mourning to practical, action-oriented tips for coping with the natural difficulties of a loss. Fostering communication between partners, explaining the loss to others, and reconciling anger and guilt are some of the additional topics covered in this compassionate book for those grieving in the aftermath of a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy.
$16.95
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Healing Your Grieving Heart For Kids
100 Practical Ideas 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, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies. Ideas and activities are aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void so that the living can begin their lives again. Included in the books for teens and kids are age-appropriate activities that teach younger people that their thoughts are not only normal but necessary.
$17.95
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Healing Your Grieving Soul
100 Spiritual Practices for Mourners Following a helpful introduction about the role of spirituality in grief, this practical mourning guide suggests activities based on meditation, prayer, yoga, and contemplative solitude to help with feelings of despair. For mourners who suffer from anxiety, breathing exercises are recommended, and massage is suggested for those who experience fatigue. Each description of these practices offers a brief activity to try out before continuing to read.
$16.95
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Alan Wolfelt Healing Your Traumatized Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Someone You Love Dies a Sudden, Violent Death
Dealing with grief in a practical manner, this guide offers compassionate tips for those affected by a traumatic death. Included are topics such as coping with family stress, expressing feelings of hurt and anger, dealing with hurtful comments, and exploring feelings of guilt. Each of the 100 suggestions is aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void in order to help survivors begin their lives again. Some of the tips include understanding the special characteristics of trauma grief, planting a tree in memory of the person who died, and making connections with others affected by a similar death.
$16.95
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How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies
There is no way around the pain of loss, but there is a way through it. Dr. Rando offers the solace, comfort, and guidance to help you accept your loss and move into your new life without forgetting your treasured past. It also includes a comprehensive resource listing and a chapter on finding professional help and support groups.
$27.99
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Susan Anderson Journey from Abandonment to Healing (Revised)
Surviving Through and Recovering from the Five Stages That Accompany the Loss of Love In this updated edition of the ground-breaking book, Susan Anderson, a therapist who has specialized in helping people with loss, heartbreak, and abandonment for more than thirty years, shares recent discoveries in neuroscience that help put your pain in perspective. It is designed to help all victims of emotional breakups-whether you are suffering from a recent loss, or a lingering wound from the past; whether you are caught up in patterns that sabotage your own relationships, or you're in a relationship in which you no longer feel loved. From the first stunning blow to starting over, it provides a complete program for abandonment recovery.
$27.99
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Living When a Young Friend Commits Suicide
In the last thirty years, the suicide rate among young people has tripled. In this book addressed to the young survivors of this epidemic, Earl A. Grollman, the internationally known lecturer, writer, and grief counselor, and Max Malikow, a psychotherapist and pastoral counselor, offer solace and guidance to adolescents who are confronted with someone of their own age who is contemplating or has committed suicide.
$25.95
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Mourner's Book of Courage
30 Days of Encouragement Written for those times in grief when the strength to do the hard and necessary work of mourning is waning, this book contains inspiring words about finding the courage deep within to embrace the pain and go on living. Presented in a one-reading-a-day-for-a-month format, it features compassionate writings by grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, as well as quotes on courage from some of the world's greatest thinkers. The Mourner's Book of Courage provides the needed boost to confront grief directly and allow the process of healing to continue.
$18.95
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Non-Death Loss and Grief
Context and Clinical Implications Illustrated by case studies and clinical examples, this book focuses on the losses we encounter in everyday life and the role of these experiences in shaping our lives. It's important to have words to accurately express these living losses including the loss of communication with a loved one due to disease or trauma, which are often not acknowledged for the depth of their impact. Chapters showcase contributions from international leaders in the field and explore individual perspectives on loss as well as interpersonal and sociopolitical experiences.
$60.95
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On Grief and Grieving
Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss Just as On Death and Dying taught us the five stages of death-denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance-On Grief and Grieving applies these stages to the grieving process and weaves together theory, inspiration, and practical advice, including sections on sadness, hauntings, dreams, isolation, and healing.
$25.99
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On Loss and Living Onward
Collected Voices for the Grieving and Those Who Would Mourn with Them After experiencing the loss of her first-born son, the author thrust herself into literature searching for those who have experienced similar, devastating loss. What she found was comfort and guidance to help her overcome the pain of losing a loved one and the faith to face her own life without him. In this book, she has compiled the resources that will guide the living through the process of grief.
$29.99
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Julia Sorensen Overcoming Loss: Activities And Stories To Help Transform Children's Grief And Loss
This reproducible resource addresses children's' feeling of loss, which can arise from changing communities, schools, moving house, divorce or the death of a parent or grandparent. Children are often unable to articulate their grief in words. The activities in Overcoming Loss use the power of play and creative arts to give the grieving child the language to identify subtle feelings, such as shame, despair and jealousy. Designed to encourage social and emotional learning, these exercises employ play, art and story-telling to access the ways in which children naturally express their feelings, and offers opportunities for parents and professionals to direct the child towards understanding their emotions.
$55.00
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Peaks and Valleys
Integrative Approaches for Recovering from Loss. Are you having difficulty moving forward after a significant loss? Are you searching for meaning and purpose in your life? Have you lost your sense of self or identity as a result of a significant loss? The powerful tools and techniques shared in this book will teach help people who are you having difficulty moving forward or who are searching for meaning and purpose in their life after a significant loss. In short, the author will help all to triumph over tragedy.
$17.50
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Surviving The Death Of A Sibling
Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies Based on the author's own experiences, as well as those of many others, Surviving the Death of a Sibling helps adults who have lost a brother or sister to realize that they are not alone in their struggle. Just as important, it teaches them to understand the unique stages of their grieving process, offering practical and prescriptive advice for dealing with each stage.
$23.00
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Talking About Death and Bereavement in School
Children experiencing bereavement are often confused, unprepared, and in need of help and support from those around them. It is important that school teachers and staff know how to respond to bereavement and how they can best help the child. This short, easy to read book offers simple but important advice and guidance for school teachers and staff on what to do when a child is grieving. It includes advice on explaining death to children, insights into how children may be feeling and how they may react, and ways in which they can be supported.
$39.95
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Talking, Feeling, and Doing Grief Card Game
Grief Card Game for ages 6-12. This card game addresses grief and is designed to help a counselor, teacher, or parent focus on specific areas that are a concern to children. The card game is intended to help children reveal their concerns and conflicts to an adult who can provide both nurturance and guidance. This card game can be played with the Talking, Feeling & Doing Board Game or as a stand-alone game. In much the same way as the board game, the cards prompt children to reveal the issues uppermost in their minds. For 2-4 players.
$39.95
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Larisa A. Garski, Justine Mastin The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When It Feels Like the End of the World
For readers of No Cure for Being Human and Simple Self-Care for Therapists, a witty and compassionate field guide to the 10 realms of grief--and how to navigate them yourself and with clients. How do you practice good therapy when it's the end of the world as we know it... and no one feels fine? The planet is burning, friends and family are falling to cults and QAnon, and we're all living through the collective trauma of a global pandemic. Among therapists and healers, burnout is rampant; hopelessness and despair are, too. In The Grieving Therapist, psychotherapists Larisa Garski, LMFT, and Justine Mastin, LMFT, give voice to the difficulties of therapising in today's world--and offer a grief-informed framework for taking care of yourself as you take care of others. Informed by narrative, internal family systems, fanfic, and trauma-sensitive therapy, Garski and Mastin examine what it means to be a therapist at the end of the world (or what feels like it). They break down 10 realms of grief that are critical to understand and work with today, but likely weren't taught to you in therapy school. Each chapter includes: Grieving tools that can be adapted for both client and therapist. Tips for supervisors and supervisees. Skills for maintaining healthy outside-the-office relationships. Support for current therapy students (and therapists new to the field). Advice on how to hold space and work with clients who have the same questions-and are navigating the same issues-as you Meditations on love, life, death, and connection Garski and Mastin also share helpful guidance around working with clients whose social or political beliefs differ from yours; when therapeutic self-disclosure makes sense; honoring the information that countertransference is trying to give you; and how to sit with (or step away from) triggers in your work. With humor, compassion, irreverence, and more than a little whimsy, The Grieving Therapist shows you how to show up for yourself, and your clients--in your own full humanity, amidst it all.
$23.95
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Sogyal Rinpoche The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: 30th Anniversary Edition
Through extraordinary anecdotes and stories from religious traditions East and West, Rinpoche introduces the reader to the fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism, moving gradually to the topics of death and dying. Death turns out to be less of a crisis and more of an opportunity. Concepts such as reincarnation, karma, and bardo and practices such as meditation, tonglen, and phowa teach us how to face death constructively. As a result, life becomes much richer.
$26.99
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Therapists' Guide to Overcoming Grief and Loss After Brain Injury
Therapist's Guide to Overcoming Grief and Loss after Brain Injury is written as a neurobehavioral and cognitive intervention manual for clinicians who counsel persons with brain injury. The Therapist's Guide provides step-by-step protocols, using the content of the patient workbook Overcoming Grief and Loss after Brain Injury. Each of the 9 Lessons can be used as a basis for therapy appointments with consumers.
$56.95
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Transforming Grief & Loss Workbook
Activities, Exercises & Skills to Coach Your Client Through Life Transitions Despite any loss your client may be experiencing, you can coach them to happiness again with this new workbook. This interactive book guides the client through The 11 Principles of Transformation, derived from CBT, positive psychology, spirituality, mindfulness and meditation. By focusing on new beginnings, experiential exercises and meaningful activities, your client will be able to start the transformative journey to wellness and wellbeing.
$44.50
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Understanding Your Suicide Grief
Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworkers, 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.
$15.95
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Nisha Zenoff Unspeakable Loss
How Do You Live After a Child Dies? No matter where you are in your grieving process, The Unspeakable Loss provides a space to mourn in your own way, and helps you understand how the death of a child affects siblings, other family members and friends, recognizing that we each grieve differently. And while there is no one prescription for healing, Nisha Zenoff provides tools to practice the important aspects of grieving that are easily forgotten -- self-compassion and self-care.
$23.99
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