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Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens

100 Practical Ideas
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Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens offers sensitive and insightful guidance on coping with the pain of losing a loved one. This book helps young people understand that grief is a natural, ongoing part of life and encourages them to slow down, embrace their emotions, and seek support. It provides age-appropriate suggestions and activities designed to express grief healthily and begin the healing process.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for teenagers who have experienced loss, as well as parents and carers seeking supportive resources to help young people navigate grief.

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With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Age: 11 - 17

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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 of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies.

Each book, geared for mourning adults, teens, or children, provides ideas and action-oriented tips that teach the basic principles of grief and healing. These ideas and activities are aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void so that the living can begin their lives again.

Included in the books for teens and kids are age-appropriate activities that teach younger people that their thoughts are not only normal but necessary.

Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens is specifically tailored to address the unique challenges teenagers face after losing someone important in their lives. With thoughtful insights and practical exercises, it aims to provide understanding and comfort during such a difficult time.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781879651234

Publisher: Companion Press,US

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 April 2001

Country: United States

Imprint: Companion Press,US

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 7.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 185g

Pages: 128

About the Author

Alan D Wolfelt PhD, serves as director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition. He writes the 'Children and Grief' column for Bereavement Magazine and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, and Today. He is the author of Healing Your Grieving Heart, Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart, and Understanding Your Grief. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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