Understanding Your Suicide Grief

Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

By: Alan Wolfelt

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Paperback | 9 November 2009

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For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent totheir grief. Using the metaphor of the wilderness, the book introduces 10 touchstones to assist the survivor in this naturally complicated and particularly painful journey. The touchstones include opening to the presence of loss, embracing the uniqueness of grief, understanding the six needs of mourning, reaching out for help, and seeking reconciliation over resolution. Learning to identify and rely on each of these touchstones will bring about hope and healing.

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Non-Fiction Family & Health Coping with / Advice about Personal, Social & Health Topics Coping with / Advice about Death & Bereavement Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Death & Dying Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice Psychology Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Clinical Psychology

Foreword	p. 1
Introduction and Welcome	p. 5
Open to the Presence of Your Loss	p. 21
Dispel the Misconceptions About Suicide and Grief and Mourning	p. 35
Explore the Uniqueness of Your Suicide Grief	p. 53
Explore Your Feelings of Loss	p. 69
Recognize You Are Not Crazy	p. 113
Understanding the Six Needs of Mourning	p. 139
Nurture Yourself	p. 155
Reach Out for Help	p. 179
Seek Integration-Not Resolution	p. 197
Appreciate Your Transformation	p. 207
Contacts to Create Support Groups and Additional Resources	p. 217
The Suicide SurvivorÆs Bill of Rights	p. 219
Helping a Suicide Survivor Heal	p. 221
Acknowledgments	p. 227
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Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

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