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Loving from the Outside In, Mourning from the Inside Out
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Price: $15.95
Hardcover - 96 pages
The capacity to love requires the necessity to mourn.
In other words, love and grief are two sides of the same precious coin. One does not-and cannot-exist without the other. They are the yin and yang of our lives. In this compassionate guide, internationally known grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt explores what love and grief have in common and invites the reader to mourn well in order to go on to live and love well again.
Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Price: $14.95
Paperback - 176 pages
One of North America's leading grief educators, Dr. Alan Wolfelt has written many books about healing in grief. This book is his most comprehensive, covering the essential lessons that mourners have taught him in his three decades of working with the bereaved. In compassionate, down-to-earth language, Understanding Your Grief describes ten touchstones—or trail markers—that are essential physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual signs for mourners to look for on their journey through grief.
Healing Your Grieving Heart When Someone You Care About Has Alzheimer's: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Price: $11.95
Paperback - 128 pages
Latest Release!
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, this newest addition to the popular 100 Ideas series covers the inevitable feelings of shock, sadness, anger, guilt, and relief, illustrating the intial reactions people commonly feel from the moment of the dementia's onset.
The Mourners Book of Hope
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Price: $15.95
Hardcover - 200 pages
To integrate loss and to move forward with a life of meaning and love, you must have hope. Hope is a belief in a good that is yet to be. This beautiful little hardcover gift book offers Dr. Wolfelt’s thoughts on hope in grief interspersed with quotes from the world’s greatest hope-filled thinkers.
Companioning the Bereaved: A Soulful Guide for Caregivers
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Price: $29.95
Hardcover - 176 pages
This book by one of North America's most respected grief educators presents a model for grief counseling based on his "companioning" principles.
For many mental healthcare providers, grief in contemporary society has been medicalized—perceived as if it were an illness that with proper assessment, diagnosis and treatment could be cured.
Dr. Wolfelt explains that our modern understanding of grief all too often conveys that at ereavement's "end" the mourner has completed a series of tasks, extinguished pain, nd established new relationships. Our psychological models emphasize "recovery" or quot;resolution" in grief, suggesting a return to "normalcy."
