Companion Press imprint: 72 books
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...
Waking Up
A Parent's Guide to Mindful Awareness and Connection
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Helping moms and dads stay present, aware, and connected with their kids, this practical guide transforms day-to-day parenting into a positive and fulfilling relationship for both parents and children. A series of simple practices is provided, making it possible to cultivate three different types...
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...
When Your Soulmate Dies
A Guide to Healing Through Heroic Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
You were one of the lucky ones. You found a partner or friend with whom you shared a deeply profound connection. You understood, opened fully to, served, and challenged one another. You were the heroes of each other’s lives. You lived a grand adventure together. But now that your partner has died,...
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...
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...
Finding the Words
How to Talk with Children and Teens about Death, Suicide, Homicide, Funerals, Cremation, and other E
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
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...