Alan Wolfelt: 73 books
The Wilderness of Grief
Finding Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2007
Based on the author's previous guides to a 10-touchstone method of grief therapy, this book takes an inspirational approach to the material, presenting the idea of wilderness as a sustained metaphor for grief-and likening the death of a loved one to the experience of being wrenched from normal...
The Understanding Your Suicide Grief Support Group Guide
Meeting Plans for Facilitators
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
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 to their grief. Using the metaphor of the wilderness, the book introduces...
The PTSD Solution
The Truth About Your Symptoms and How to Heal
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
A new approach to understanding PTSD as a form of grief rather than a medical disorder
Have you ever felt that something essential was missing from your post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment options? If you suffer from PTSD, you know the problem is complex, but what you probably don’t...
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 Transcending Divorce Journal
Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
An aide for the challenging emotional process that follows a divorce, this companion journal to Transcending Divorce explores the 10 crucial touchstones for finding hope and healing the mourning heart, including dispelling misconceptions about divorce, seeking reconciliation, and appreciating the...
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....
The Understanding Your Grief Journal
Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
This companion workbook to Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart is designed to help mourners explore the many facets of their unique grief through journaling. Ten essential touchstones for mourners are covered, including being open to the presence...
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,...
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...
The Understanding Your Suicide Grief Journal
Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
With ample space to unburden the heart and the soul, this companion workbook helps grievers explore the 10 essential touchstones for finding hope and healing. The exercises throughout the journal recall the content of the book and ask corresponding questions about the survivor's unique grief journey.
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...