Alan Wolfelt: 73 books
The Wilderness of Suicide Grief
Finding Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Presenting the idea of wilderness as a sustained metaphor for grief, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to the grief felt by those who have experienced the suicide of a loved one and offers information about coping with such a profound loss. Likening the death of a loved...
The Journey Through Grief
Reflections on Healing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
This spiritual companion for mourners affirms their need to mourn and invites them to journey through their very unique and personal grief. Detailed are the six needs that all mourners must yield to and eventually embrace if they are to go on to find continued meaning in life and living, including...
Living in the Shadow of the Ghosts of Your Grief
A Guide for Life, Living and Loving
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Explaining how multitudes of North Americans are carrying the pain of all types of loss-not just the deaths of loved ones but also the loss of a spouse through divorce, children who leave home, and the decline of health as they age or get sick-this balanced resource empowers mourners and grief counselors to turn...
Transcending Divorce
Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
With empathy and wisdom, this resource provides 10 essential touchstones for hope and healing when enduring a divorce while simultaneously dispelling common misconceptions associated with divorce. Stressing the importance of the need to fully mourn the loss of a relationship before moving on, this...
Healing Your Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
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...
Understanding Your Grief
Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have. Questions...
Understanding Your Suicide Grief
Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
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...
Eight Critical Questions for Mourners
And the Answers That Will Help You Heal
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Confronting the little griefs” that can occur in the course of a lifetime, this handbook seeks to relieve the inevitable burden of loss. Taking the wilderness experience” into account-being disconnected from oneself and the outside world-this guide presents 12 vital questions, the answers...
Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens
100 Practical Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
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...
Healing Your Grieving Heart After Miscarriage
100 Practical Ideas for Parents and Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The miscarriage of a hoped-for child is a shattering loss and those who had already begun to feel attached to the baby will naturally grieve—particularly the mother and father but also siblings this baby would have had, extended family, and friends. This compassionate guide contains 100 practical...
Healing Your Grieving Heart When Someone You Care About Has Alzheimer's
100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends, and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
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...
by Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Recognizing how the need to grieve is anchored in one’s capacity to care for someone, this calming guide contends that the act of mourning is healthy-and necessary-following a life-changing loss. The very foundation of attachment is reflected upon, illustrating devotion as both the primary cause...
Healing a Child's Heart After Divorce
100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Addressing the significant loss that divorce represents for children, this caregiving companion makes it possible for adults to guide them through the natural grief that accompanies the experience. Contending that children can continue to thrive if they are shown the way, this sensitive guide provides...
A Child's View of Grief
A Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Counselors
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Parents, teachers, and other adults can learn through this concise and caring guide to how children and adolescents grieve after someone they love dies. Exploring the six reconciliation needs of mourning, this helpful resource recognizes that grieving children are especially deserving of an emotional...