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Author: Francis A. Martin Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1725255294 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 196
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Grief. The acute pain of loss. A welcome and necessary but often truly difficult challenge for persons of faith is responding to grieving others. Stripped to the moment of encounter with someone who is grieving, the questions are pressing ones. What can I say? What should I not say? Is there anything I can do? What are some of the things I can do? Instead of placing the burden of the answers on a grieving friend or family member, this book provides specific things to say and things to do for those who grieve. It is a book that emerged from real life. Almost every page reveals the persistent and deep thought that Martin has given to grieving others. As such, it is a life-affirming book of hope and action. It fulfills its goal of providing ways for readers to know “what to say and do when their loss challenges your faith.” As a life-affirming book, it is also a faith-affirming book.
Author: Francis A. Martin Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1725255294 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
Grief. The acute pain of loss. A welcome and necessary but often truly difficult challenge for persons of faith is responding to grieving others. Stripped to the moment of encounter with someone who is grieving, the questions are pressing ones. What can I say? What should I not say? Is there anything I can do? What are some of the things I can do? Instead of placing the burden of the answers on a grieving friend or family member, this book provides specific things to say and things to do for those who grieve. It is a book that emerged from real life. Almost every page reveals the persistent and deep thought that Martin has given to grieving others. As such, it is a life-affirming book of hope and action. It fulfills its goal of providing ways for readers to know “what to say and do when their loss challenges your faith.” As a life-affirming book, it is also a faith-affirming book.
Author: Alan D. Wolfelt Publisher: Companion Press ISBN: 1617221589 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 162
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Renowned author and educator Alan Wolfelt redefines the role of the grief counselor in this guide for caregivers to grieving children. Providing a viable alternative to the limitations of the medical establishment’s model for companioning the bereaved, Wolfelt encourages counselors and other caregivers to aspire to a more compassionate philosophy in which the child is the expert of his or her grief—not the counselor or caregiver. The approach outlined in the book argues against treating grief as an illness to be diagnosed and treated but rather for acknowledging it as an event that forever changes a child's worldview. By promoting careful listening and observation, this guide shows caregivers, family members, teachers, and others how to support grieving children and help them grow into healthy adults.
Author: J. Shep Jeffreys Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135941386 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 311
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Helping Grieving People is a training manual for care providers who will provide support and counseling to those grieving death, illness, and other losses. The author addresses grief as it affects a variety of relationships and discusses different intervention and support strategies, always cognizant of individual and cultural differences in the expression and treatment of grief. Jeffreys has established a practical approach to preparing trainee caregivers through three basic tracks: Heart, Head and Hand. The first step, Heart, calls for self discovery, freeing oneself of accumulated loss in order to focus all attention on the griever. Head emphasizes understanding the complex and dynamic phenomena of human grief. Hand stresses the caregiver's actual intervention, and speaks to the appropriate level of skill as well as the various methods of healing available. Following these three motifs, the Handbook discusses the social and cultural contexts of grief as well as its psychological constructs.
Author: Monica E. Pierce Publisher: Gatekeeper Press ISBN: 1642378666 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 123
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Today’s professional women are tired of feeling pressured to Lean In and Have it All. Women’s Equality isn’t about getting more of us into the corner office or the boardroom. It’s about having the freedom to choose our own path. But mainstream messages have lost sight of this and turned our pursuit of professional achievement into a directive rather than a choice. As a result, many women of our generation are now chasing after careers and accomplishments that we may not truly want, all at the cost of our families, our health, and our happiness. Well, instead of striving to have it all, it’s time to have just what we want. In this refreshingly honest book, self-proclaimed “average” working woman, Monica Pierce: - shares her own story of how her professional ambition changed once she admitted she didn’t actually want to “have it all. - highlights thought-provoking connections to scientific, philosophical, and social concepts that explain why so many of us are reluctant to Lean In. - offers plenty of insight and practical tips to help you right-size your life. Leaning Out is a must-read for women who are tired of today’s one-sided messages and looking for an alternative perspective.
Author: Karan Scott Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781089337867 Category : Languages : en Pages : 402
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Karan is divorced. Never in a million years did she expect to be divorced, because she had married Perfect Steve, and had meant every last syllable of her wedding vows. Turns out, after 24 years of building a home, family and business together, Perfect Steve was just ordinary. Whilst slowly unravelling in some kind of suspected midlife crisis spasm, Steve embarked upon an affair with Karan's best friend and started jumping up and down on his self-destruct button. The marriage ended, and the once devoted family was blown apart. Karan grieved for her losses... to begin with. You see, Karan is a Life Coach and Mentor by day, so she couldn't help but take her own medicine and heed her own advice. It was brutal and she was tested every day. With two emotionally assaulted young children to navigate through a hellscape of poverty and homelessness, Karan had to dig deep into her reserves of inner strength, to not only survive, but ultimately to prevail. For too long, Karan's own potential had been buried like a seed under a pile of slabs, starved of all that she needed to grow. Once life had unfolded sufficiently, to reveal how Steve had bestowed his problems upon her nemesis, Karan was finally free to blossom in her own right, and to eventually become too relieved to grieve. As an intensely private person, Karan has dragged her vulnerabilities kicking and screaming into the light for the first time in her life, specifically to write Too Relieved To Grieve, and specifically to help you. Walking the walk, Karan has had to grow through what she went through and wants to help you do the same. This alternative heartbreak handbook is a call to arms for anyone who's ever had their life smashed and splattered by the callous misdeeds of others. Karan rose from the ashes to eventual triumph, and this is how she did it.
Author: Allan Hugh Cole, Jr. Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press ISBN: 066423268X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 126
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In this brief book Allan Hugh Cole explains the process of grief and what loss can do to us, identifies ways of coping, and reminds us of the hope that we can find in mourning. Ultimately, Cole offers a plan of "good mourning"--a way to work through the loss and rebuild life with new strength. Cole describes what it takes to be engaged in good mourning instead of endless suffering and demonstrates how faith and prayer can be practical tools in rebuilding life after loss.
Author: Francis Weller Publisher: North Atlantic Books ISBN: 1583949763 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 225
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The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and be stretched large by them. As seen on All There Is with Anderson Cooper Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of sorrow and loss in this lyrical yet practical handbook for mastering the art of grieving. Describing how Western patterns of amnesia and anesthesia affect our capacity to cope with personal and collective sorrows, Weller reveals the new vitality we may encounter when we welcome, rather than fear, the pain of loss. Through moving personal stories, poetry, and insightful reflections he leads us into the central energy of sorrow, and to the profound healing and heightened communion with each other and our planet that reside alongside it. The Wild Edge of Sorrow explains that grief has always been communal and illustrates how we need the healing touch of others, an atmosphere of compassion, and the comfort of ritual in order to fully metabolize our grief. Weller describes how we often hide our pain from the world, wrapping it in a secret mantle of shame. This causes sorrow to linger unexpressed in our bodies, weighing us down and pulling us into the territory of depression and death. We have come to fear grief and feel too alone to face an encounter with the powerful energies of sorrow. Those who work with people in grief, who have experienced the loss of a loved one, who mourn the ongoing destruction of our planet, or who suffer the accumulated traumas of a lifetime will appreciate the discussion of obstacles to successful grief work such as privatized pain, lack of communal rituals, a pervasive feeling of fear, and a culturally restrictive range of emotion. Weller highlights the intimate bond between grief and gratitude, sorrow and intimacy. In addition to showing us that the greatest gifts are often hidden in the things we avoid, he offers powerful tools and rituals and a list of resources to help us transform grief into a force that allows us to live and love more fully.
Author: Sallie Tisdale Publisher: Gallery Books ISBN: 1501182188 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 256
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CRITICS’ TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR “In its loving, fierce specificity, this book on how to die is also a blessedly saccharine-free guide for how to live” (The New York Times). Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking, yet practical perspective on death and dying in Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them). Informed by her many years working as a nurse, with more than a decade in palliative care, Tisdale provides a frank, direct, and compassionate meditation on the inevitable. From the sublime (the faint sound of Mozart as you take your last breath) to the ridiculous (lessons on how to close the sagging jaw of a corpse), Tisdale leads us through the peaks and troughs of death with a calm, wise, and humorous hand. Advice for Future Corpses is more than a how-to manual or a spiritual bible: it is a graceful compilation of honest and intimate anecdotes based on the deaths Tisdale has witnessed in her work and life, as well as stories from cultures, traditions, and literature around the world. Tisdale explores all the heartbreaking, beautiful, terrifying, confusing, absurd, and even joyful experiences that accompany the work of dying, including: A Good Death: What does it mean to die “a good death”? Can there be more than one kind of good death? What can I do to make my death, or the deaths of my loved ones, good? Communication: What to say and not to say, what to ask, and when, from the dying, loved ones, doctors, and more. Last Months, Weeks, Days, and Hours: What you might expect, physically and emotionally, including the limitations, freedoms, pain, and joy of this unique time. Bodies: What happens to a body after death? What options are available to me after my death, and how do I choose—and make sure my wishes are followed? Grief: “Grief is the story that must be told over and over...Grief is the breath after the last one.” Beautifully written and compulsively readable, Advice for Future Corpses offers the resources and reassurance that we all need for planning the ends of our lives, and is essential reading for future corpses everywhere. “Sallie Tisdale’s elegantly understated new book pretends to be a user’s guide when in fact it’s a profound meditation” (David Shields, bestselling author of Reality Hunger).
Author: Francis A. Martin
Author: Francis A. Martin
Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
Author: J. Shep Jeffreys
Author: Monica E. Pierce
Author: Karan Scott
Author: Julia Kavanagh
Author: Allan Hugh Cole, Jr.
Author: Francis Weller
Author: Sallie Tisdale
Author: Mark Spilka