Understanding Your Suicide Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and

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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.

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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 totheir 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.

Author Biography

Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD, is a grief counselor and the director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition. He is the author of the Healing Your Grieving Heart series, The Journey Through Grief, Transcending Divorce, and Understanding Your Grief. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Foreword; Introduction & Welcome; Touchstone One: Open to the Presence of Your Loss; Touchstone Two: Dispel the Misconceptions About Suicide & Grief & Mourning; Touchstone Three: Explore the Uniqueness of Your Suicide Grief; Touchstone Four: Explore Your Feelings of Loss; Touchstone Five: Recognise You Are Not Crazy; Touchstone Six: Understanding the Six Needs of Mourning; Touchstone Seven: Nurture Yourself; Touchstone Eight: Reach Out for Help; Touchstone Nine: Seek Integration -- Not Resolution; Touchstone Ten: Appreciate Your Transformation; Contacts to Create Support Groups & Additional Resources; The Suicide Survivor's Bill of Rights; Helping a Suicide Survivor Heal.

Details ISBN1879651580 Short Title UNDERSTANDING YOUR SUICIDE GRI Series Understanding Your Grief Language English ISBN-10 1879651580 ISBN-13 9781879651586 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 Imprint Companion Press,US Subtitle Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart Country of Publication United States DEWEY 155.937 NZ Release Date 2009-08-01 US Release Date 2009-08-01 UK Release Date 2009-08-01 Place of Publication Fort Collins Pages 194 Publisher Companion Press,US Publication Date 2009-08-01 Audience General AU Release Date 2009-11-08 Author Alan D. Wolfelt Illustrations Illustrations We've got this

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