Alan Wolfelt: 73 books
When Your Pet Dies
A Guide to Mourning, Remembering and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Affirming a pet owner's struggle with grief when his or her pet dies, this book helps mourners understand why their feelings are so strong and helps them overcome the loss. Included are practical suggestions for mourning and ideas for remembering and memorializing one's pet. Among the issues covered...
Healing a Child's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
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...
by Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Addressing the inevitable grief that accompanies the loss of a loved one, this encouraging and supportive reference provides comfort in the midst of overwhelming sadness. Preventing mourners from becoming tangled in a web of despair, this guide shows how the smallest amount of hope can be nurtured...
Healing Your Holiday Grief
100 Practical Ideas for Blending Mourning and Celebration During the Holiday Season
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
With compassionate insight, this handbook helps those in mourning through what can be the hardest time of year—the holiday season. Mourners will better understand their complex emotions after reading about such topics as honoring thoughts and feelings, creating new traditions, finding ways to de-stress,...
Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Your Parent Dies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Offering heartfelt and simple advice, this book provides realistic suggestions and relief for an adult child whose parent has died. Practical advice is presented in a one-topic-per-page format that does not overwhelm with psychological language, but provides small, immediate ways to understand and...
Healing a Friend's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas for Helping Someone You Love Through Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
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...
Healing Your Traumatized Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Someone You Love Dies a Sudden, Violent Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
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...
Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
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...
Healing Your Grief When Disaster Strikes
100 Practical Ideas for Coping After a Tornado, Hurricane, Flood, Earthquake, Wildfire, or Other Natural Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
When your family, neighborhood, city, or area of the country is affected by a natural disaster, it’s normal and necessary to feel grief and the traumatic experience of actually witnessing and surviving the event may be consuming you. This book will help you understand and embrace your difficult...
Caring for Donor Families
Before, During and After
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Integrating vital information on the dynamics of the donation experience and grief education, this revised second edition provides an invaluable resource for hospital and organ procurement caregivers. Going beyond helping professionals understand the challenges of obtaining consent, this guide invites...
Healing Your Grieving Soul
100 Spiritual Practices for Mourners
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
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...
Creating Meaningful Funeral Experiences
A Guide for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Written in response to the current trend to deritualize death and funeral ceremonies, this book explores the ways in which caregivers and clergy can create heartfelt ceremonies that help the bereaved begin to heal. Explaining the purposes behind rituals, it reviews the many ways these have changed...
by Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Designed to complement the clergy and funeral director’s role in the funeral planning process, this book walks families through the many decisions they will make at the time of a death and helps them create a ceremony that will be both healing and meaningful. Options are clearly explained and alternatives...
Healing Your Grieving Heart After a Military Death
100 Practical Ideas for Family and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Practical methods for healing after the loss of a member of the military
When a loved one is killed in the line of duty, this book affirms that survivors’ grief is shaped by the unique circumstances of the death. Because military deaths are almost always sudden and violent, the traumatic nature...