Grief--Loss & Bereavement: Resources for Finding One's Way Through Loss
By award-winning author and stress-relief expert Susie Mantell
There is much excellent professional help available at the community level and the greatest healing is perhaps done among family and friends, and on our own. Grief is a very private process... But at some point, sometimes we go looking for a good book or website and I have a couple I would like to suggest as possible options
1) BOOK: TRANSCENDING LOSS by Ashley Davis Prend --Understanding the Lifelong Impact of Grief and How to Make It Meaningful.
Prend is a gifted therapist, offering a creative and comforting perspective on Loss. In many ways people find new meaning and fresh hope in TRANSCENDING LOSS .
Here are a note about it from Amazon.com:
"Ashley Davis Prend makes a bold move to help people struggling with grief. No other authority has touched on the concept of how grief is processed for a lifetime more comprehensively. Prend makes clear the fact that our quality of living is dramatically changed with each loss. She also points out that each of us make an individual choice in whether we use grief to resign from life or use it to design our life. In this book you will find useful information on how to deal with the early stages of loss, (acute grief) to how to reinvest in new ways of living that are meaningful and joyful...Prend's book will be a cornerstone for a new type of grief therapy that provides honest, accurate, and truthful answers for all of us who suffer loss and for those who care for them. Prend's book is superb."
2) HELPFUL WEBSITE: http://www.death-dying.com
Many resources for people and their loved ones exploring stages of bereavement and living on after loss. Here you will find varying perspectives and resources ...some of which will feel more comfortable than others--There is lots there to choose from. The internet really opens a whole world of possibilities and ways in which to connect with others who understand. As long as we also remember to reach out and connect in "real life" too. Get out, see friends, rediscover how to have fun, etc.... Somehow, we go on. We will never be the same, but we will be okay...
(See additonal tips in this section on Loss)
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