The grief recovery handbook : the action program for moving beyond death, divorce, and other losses including health, career, and faith
Edition
20th anniversary expanded edition.
Publication Information
New York, N.Y. : Collins Living, [2009]
Physical Description
xvi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary
Presents a step-by-step program for recovering from loss, discussing the concepts of grief and recovery, the extent to which people are prepared to deal with loss, and the active decision to recover.
"Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories as well as from others', the authors illustrate how it is possible to recover from grief and regain energy and spontaneity. Based on a proven program, The Grief Recovery Handbook offers grievers the specific actions needed to move beyond loss. New material in this edition includes guidance for dealing with: loss of faith; loss of career and financial issues; loss of health; growing up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional home."--Back cover.
Contents
- Part one: Seeing the problem ; Grief : as neglected and misunderstood process ; Compounding the problem ; We are ill prepared to deal with loss ; Others are ill prepared to help us deal with loss ; Academy Award recovery
- Part two: Preparing for change: starting to recover. Your first choice : choosing to recover ; Setting the guidelines ; Identifying short-term energy relievers ; The loss history graph
- Part three: Finding the solution. What is incompleteness? ; Introducing the relationship graph ; Almost home : converting the relationship graph into recovery components ; What now?
- Part four: More on choices and other losses. More on choices : which loss to work on first ; Guidelines for working on specific losses.