Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed as well. This book upholds the rights of mourners to be compassionate with themselves, to lean on others for help, and to trust in their ability to heal. Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD, is a world renowned speaker, grief counselor, and Director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition. He is the author of Understanding Your Grief, Grief One Day at a Time, and Companioning the Bereaved. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.