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Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies
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This book is ideal for bereaved spouses seeking empathetic support and practical advice to cope with loss and rebuild their lives after the death of a partner.
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See moreOffers 100 practical, here-and-now suggestions for helping widowers or widows mourn well so they can go on to live well and love well again. Whether your spouse died recently or long ago, you will find comfort and healing in this compassionate book.
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Helping widows and widowers to learn how to cope with the grief of losing their helpmate, their lover, and perhaps their financial provider, this guide shows them how to find continued meaning in life when doing so seems difficult.
Bereaved spouses will find advice on when and how to dispose of their mate's belongings, dealing with their children, and redefining their role with friends and family.
Suggestions are provided for elderly mourners, young widows and widowers, unmarried lovers, and same-sex partners. The information and comfort offered apply to individuals whose spouse died recently or long ago.
Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart addresses these topics with sensitivity and understanding, offering guidance and support for a challenging time.
Series: Healing Your Grieving Heart series
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Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart
Helping widows and widowers to learn how to cope with the grief of losing their helpmate, their lover, and perhaps their financial provider, this guide shows them how to find continued meaning in life when doing so seems difficult. Bereaved spouses will find advice on when and how to dispose of their mate's belongings, dealing with their children, and redefining...Paperback$3900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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ISBN: 9781879651371
Publisher: Companion Press,US
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 November 2003
Country: United States
Imprint: Companion Press,US
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 7.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
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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