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Living in the Shadow of the Ghosts of Grief

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Living in the Shadow of the Ghosts of Grief explores the many forms of loss experienced beyond death, including divorce, empty nests, and health decline. Alan Wolfelt offers a thoughtful guide to understanding and working through accumulated sorrow using a five-phase "catch-up" mourning process. This holistic and spiritual approach helps readers embrace and reconcile their grief to live fuller, more balanced lives.
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This book is ideal for individuals coping with various types of loss, as well as grief counsellors seeking compassionate, effective strategies to support their clients.

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Helps mourners and grief counsellors to turn grief into an experience to be learned from. Defining the varieties of heartache and its consequences, this guide explores how to inventory, understand, embrace, and reconcile one's accumulated sorrow through a five-phase 'catch-up' mourning process.

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Explaining how multitudes of North Americans are carrying the pain of all types of loss—not just the deaths of loved ones but also the loss of a spouse through divorce, children who leave home, and the decline of health as they age or get sick—this balanced resource empowers mourners and grief counsellors to turn grief into an experience to be learned from.

Defining the varieties of heartache and its consequences, this effective guide explores how to inventory, understand, embrace, and reconcile one's accumulated sorrow through a five-phase "catch-up" mourning process.

Readers will learn to use a spiritual and holistic approach to examine and integrate the ignored loss from their pasts, so that they can go on to live fuller, more balanced lives.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781879651517

Publisher: Companion Press,US

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: Companion Press,US

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 213g

Pages: 152

About the Author

Alan D Wolfelt Ph.D. 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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