Waking Up Alone: Grief & Healing

Surviving the death of a spouse/companion: Whether your loss was sudden or anticipated, your relationship brief or long-term, everyone’s experience with grief is different. Recognizing and understanding the varied pathways of grief is crucial to your healing process. As the shock subsides and the healing begins, it is imperative for survivors to identify their emotions and reactions as well as the actions of those around them. The often-noted inability of friends, family and society to deal with death and dying is confusing and hurtful, and at times can interfere with the ability to assimilate your loss.

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The Tender Scar: Life After the Death of a Spouse

Written by a former physician and recent widower, this warmly practical book guides the bereaved through the grief process and explains how to live after the death of a spouse. Taking excerpts from his personal journal, Dr. Mabry discusses the situations and feelings he encountered during the grief process. A valuable resource for anyone coping with the death of a loved one.

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The Many Faces Of Bereavement: The Nature And Treatment Of Natural, Traumatic, and Stigmatized Grief

Overviews the traditional models of grief, emphasizing the treatment of parental grief and the grief response of the elderly following the death of a spouse. Details suggested typologies and treatment strategies for traumatized and stigmatized processes of grief that are specific to the mode of deaVisit merchant here…