Grief/Loss
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David Kessler Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief Workbook: Tools for Releasing Pain and Remembering with Love
In this companion workbook to David's bestselling book Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, you will come to understand your unique and personal experience with grief and begin to work through the loss, releasing the hurt and learning to grieve with more love than pain . . . because love never dies. And it is in that love where you can find meaning. Written with warmth, sensitivity, and unique insight, you'll feel like you are sitting with David, having a conversation along your path to healing.
$29.95
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Alan Wolfelt Finding the Words: How to Talk to Children and Teens about Death, Suicide, Homicide, Funerals, Cremation, and other End-of-Life Matters
With this compassionate book by respected grief counselor and educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, readers will find simplified and suitable methods for talking to children and teenagers about sensitive topics with an emphasis on the subject of death. Honest but child-appropriate language is advocated, and various wording and levels of explanation are suggested for different ages when discussing topics such as death in general, suicide, homicide, accidental death, the death of a child, terminal illness, pet death, funerals, and cremation. An ideal book for parents, caregivers, and counselors looking for an easy resource when talking to youths about death, this book can be used for any setting, religious or otherwise.
$16.95
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Alan Wolfelt First Aid for Broken Hearts
Life is both wonderful and devastating. It graces us with joy, and it breaks our hearts. If your heart is broken, this book is for you. Whether you're struggling with a death, break-up, illness, unwanted life change, or loss of any kind, this book will help you both understand your predicament and figure out what to do about it. Loss may be an unavoidable part of human life, but it doesn't have to prevent you from living well. You can and will survive this. Actually, if you adopt this guide's basic principles, revealed and tested by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors, you will even go on to thrive.
$13.95
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Nancy Coffelt, Tricia Tusa Fred Stays With Me!
Told from the point of view of a young child whose parents are divorced, this book follows a girl and her dog, Fred, from one parent's house to the other's, giving her a sense of continuity and stability. With a simple text and childlike language, the story expresses and addresses a child's concerns, highlights the friendship between child and pet, presents a common ground for the parents, and resolves conflict in a positive way. Tricia Tusa's charming and whimsical artwork adds a light, happy feel to this poignant - but not overly sentimental - story.
$12.99
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Goodbye, Friend
Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet In this book, Gary Kowalski takes you on a journey of healing, offering warmth and sound advice on how to cope with the death of your pet. Filled with heartwarming stories and practical guidance on such matters as taking care of yourself while mourning, creating rituals to honor your pet's memory, and talking to children about death, Goodbye, Friend is a beautiful and comforting book for anyone grieving the loss of a beloved animal.
$24.95
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Jessica Ralli, Megan Madison, Isabel Roxas Goodbye: A First Conversation About Grief
This topic-driven picture book offers clear, concrete language and compelling imagery to introduce the concept of grief to children. This book aims to normalize the topic of death by discussing what it means and how it feels to experience loss. It centers around several questions that arise about grief and honest, simple ways to answer them. The backmatter offers additional resources and ideas for extending this discussion.
$21.99
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Grief Deck
Rituals, Meditations, and Tools for Moving through Loss A unique and supportive tool that will help you constructively address grief in daily life, a little bit at a time. Everyone faces grief in their own way and in their own time. No matter where you are in your grief journey, The Grief Deck meets you there and offers sensitive and engaging activities to guide you forward. Sixty beautifully illustrated cards, created by a diverse array of artists and grief workers, feature thoughtful prompts, simple activities, and grounding resources for coping with loss, including: Meditations for reconnecting with your body and senses and taking moments to reflect in nature; Prompts to help you address anxiety, hold a vigil, or create rituals of remembrance; Guidance on finding time for intentional rest and developing daily routines; And much more. These activities-each one paired with artwork for reflection-can be explored in any order, at any time they are needed. Paired with a grief journal or other traditional grief books, this card deck provides an active path for resilient grieving and recovery from loss. It can be used effectively by individuals, families, and groups, is an indispensable tool for grief counselors and death doulas, and makes a meaningful gift for anyone grieving the loss of a partner, parent, friend, pet, or anyone close to their heart.
$29.95
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Bridget McNulty Grief Handbook: A Guide Through the Worst Days of Your Life
There is no one-size-fits-all recovery process for bereavement. Understanding that each experience of grief is unique, you can stop worrying about how you should be feeling. This interactive journal offers you room to explore your feelings at your own pace, helping you not to shy away from the enormity of your heartbreak. To be able to move through grief we need to understand our emotions, tune into our needs and know that what we are feeling is normal. Grief isn't something to "get over", but a loss to honour and live with. This gentle book shows us how.
$24.95
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Tamara Ellis Smith, Nancy Whitesides Grief Is an Elephant
An imaginative and heartfelt book that reminds us that there is no loss without love. When Grief first arrives, it is like an elephant-so big that there is hardly room for anything else. But over time, Grief can become smaller and smaller-first a deer, then a fox, a mouse, and finally a flickering firefly in the darkness leading us down a path of loving remembrance. This lyrical work is an empathetic and comforting balm for anyone who is experiencing grief, be it grieving the loss of a loved one or losses in the world around us.
$26.99
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Julia Cook, Anita DuFalla Grief is Like A Snowflake
Grief is like a snowflake. Each snowflake is different, and everyone shows grief differently. After the death of his father, Little Tree begins to learn how to cope with his feelings and start the healing process. With the help and support of his family and friends, Little Tree learns to cope by discovering what's really important in life and that his father's memory will carry on.
$15.95
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Coral Popowitz Grief Recovery for Teens: Letting Go of Painful Emotions with Body-Based Practices
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. 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.
$34.95
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Ester R. A. Leutenberg, Fran Zamore Griefwork For Teens: Healing from Loss
Loss is a part of everyone s life at some point. Each person reacts to a loss in a personal way. As well as the emotional response, loss also has physical, intellectual, behavioral, social and philosophical dimensions. Response to loss is varied and is influenced by beliefs and practices. GriefWork for Teens is for facilitators to help grieving teens heal from their losses. The authors refer to the psychological process of coping with a significant loss as grief work.
$72.95
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GriefWork: Healing from Loss
Reproducible Interactive & Educational Handouts This book is for therapists, counselors, group facilitators and other professionals working to help grieving people heal from their losses. Everyone experiences loss. We refer to the psychological process of coping with a significant loss as grief work. The range of behaviors, emotions and attitudes is huge. Throughout the book we use the terms normalize and New Normal to convey that everyone's grief has a unique expression and is that particular person's 'normal.' The handouts in GriefWork ' Healing from Loss will engage those who grieve and encourage them to identify, internalize and/or verbalize personal feelings while working through the grieving process. The book contains activity and educational handouts and journaling pages which can be used in individual counseling sessions, educational settings and support groups.
$72.95
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Grieving Child
A Parent's Guide Explaining death to a child is one of the most difficult tasks a parent or other relative can face. The Grieving Child offers practical, compassionate advice for helping a child cope with the death of a parent or other loved one. Parents of children from preschool age to the teen years will find much-needed guidance, covering: Helping a child visit the seriously ill or dying, Using language appropriate to a child's age level, Selecting useful books about death, Handling especially difficult situations, including murder and suicide, and Deciding whether a child should attend a funeral. With a chapter devoted to the special issues of the bereaved toddler, The Grieving Child provides invaluable suggestions for dealing with a child's emotional responses (including anger, guilt, and depression) and helping a child adjust to a new life.
$24.95
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Joanne Cacciatore Grieving is Loving: Compassionate Words for Bearing the Unbearable
If you love, you will grieve-and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. This book is a companion to carry with you throughout your day, to touch in with and be supported by when bearing the unbearable pain of a loved one's death-whether weeks or years since their passing. Our culture often makes the bereaved feel alone, isolated, broken, and like they should just "get over it"-this book offers a loving antidote. Open to any page and you'll find something that will instantly help you feel not alone, while honoring the full weight of loss.
$19.95
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Helen Fitzgerald Grieving Teen
A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends The author focuses on the special needs of adolescents struggling with loss and gives teens the tools they need to work through their pain and grief. Although the circumstances surrounding a death are difficult to handle at any age, adolescence brings with it challenges and struggles that until now have been largely overlooked.
$27.95
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Healing A Child's Grieving Heart
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. 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.
$17.50
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Healing A Friend's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas for Helping Someone You Love Through Loss 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 provides the fundamental principles of being a true companion, from committing to contact the friend regularly to being mindful of the anniversary of the death. 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.
$16.95
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Dr. Alan D. Wolfelt Healing a Grandparent's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Your Grandchild Dies 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 loss of a relationship they will never have, this book offers grandparents compassionate comfort and practical ideas for their journey through grief, addressing as well the unique pain of watching their children mourn the loss of their child. The ideas offered in the book clarify the basic principles of grief and mourning and offer immediate suggestions for things grandparents can do to embrace their grief, honor and remember their grandchild, and begin to heal.
$16.95
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Healing A Parent's Grieving Heart
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 others who will listen to stories of grief; creating a memory book, box, or Web site; and remembering others who may still be struggling with the death. The guide also addresses common problems for grieving parents, including dealing with marital stress, helping surviving siblings, dealing with hurtful advice, and exploring feelings of guilt.
$17.95
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Healing A Spouse's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband Or Wife Dies "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 mate's belongings, dealing with their children, and redefining their role with friends and family. Suggestions are provided for elderly mourners, young widows and widowers, unmarried lovers, and same-sex partners. The information and comfort offered apply to individuals whose spouse died recently or long ago."
$17.95
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Healing A Teen's Grieving Heart
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 teens 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.
$19.95
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Alan Wolfelt, Kirby J. Duvall Healing After Job Loss: 100 Practical Ideas
Full of practical, time-tested counsel, this handbook offers simple, useful tips and activities to counter the typically negative reactions to job loss, such as loss of self esteem, and explores thoughts and feelings with the goal of healing. Whether discussing situations when companies have been downsized or individuals have been fired, furloughed, or laid off, this guide provides a healthy way of dealing with often overwhelming feelings-of anger, anxiety, depression, and hopelessness-in a healthy, hopeful manner.
$17.95
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Healing Games
Ages 6-12 Healing Games is a collection of six board games designed to help children who have experienced serious life events that have left them feeling sad, angry, helpless, and even depressed. These experiences include: death of a loved one, traumatic events, and surviving a natural disaster. For 2-4 players. Game board book, instruction manual, chips, 6-sided die, card decks, pawns.
$74.95
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