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    Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids: 100 Practical Ideas
    Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids: 100 Practical Ideas
    Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids: 100 Practical Ideas
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    Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids: 100 Practical Ideas

    By Alan D. Wolfelt

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    With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies. Each book, geared for mourning adults, teens, or children, provides ideas and action-oriented tips that teach the basic principles of grief and healing. These ideas and activities are aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void so that the living can begin their lives again. Included in the books for teens and kids are age-appropriate activities that teach younger people that their thoughts are not only normal but necessary.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCompanion Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2001
    ISBN9781617220760
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      Book preview

      Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids - Alan D. Wolfelt

      Also by Alan Wolfelt:

      A Child’s View of Grief

      Creating Meaningful Funeral Ceremonies:

      A Guide for Families

      Healing a Teen’s Grieving Heart:

      100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers

      Healing the Bereaved Child: Grief Gardening, Growth

      Through Grief and Other Touchstones for Caregivers

      Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids:

      100 Practical Ideas

      Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens:

      100 Practical Ideas

      The Journey Through Grief: Reflections on Healing

      Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones

      For Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

      Companion Press is dedicated to the education and support of both the bereaved and bereavement caregivers.

      We believe that those who companion the bereaved by walking with them as they journey in grief have a wondrous opportunity: to help others embrace and grow through grief—and to lead fuller, more deeply-lived lives themselves because of this important ministry.

      For a complete catalog and ordering information, write or call:

      Companion Press

      The Center for Loss and Life Transition

      3735 Broken Bow Road

      Fort Collins, CO 80526

      (970) 226-6050

      www.centerforloss.com

      © 2001 by Alan D.Wolfelt, Ph.D.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher.

      Companion Press is an imprint of the

      Center for Loss and Life Transition

      3735 Broken Bow Road

      Fort Collins, Colorado 80526

      970-226-6050

      www.centerforloss.com

      Companion Press books may be purchased in bulk for sales promotions, premiums or fundraisers. Please contact the publisher at the above address for more information.

      Printed in the United States of America

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      ISBN: 978-1-879651-27-2

      Table of Contents

      Also by Alan Wolfelt:

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Dedication

      A NOTE TO PARENTS AND OTHER LOVING GROWN-UPS

      Introduction

      1. - Learn that grief and mourning are different.

      2. - Take it easy on yourself.

      3. - UNDERSTAND THE SIX NEEDS OF MOURNING Need 1. Accept the death.

      4. - UNDERSTAND THE SIX NEEDS OF MOURNING Need 2. Let yourself feel sad.

      5. - UNDERSTAND THE SIX NEEDS OF MOURNING Need 3. Remember the person who died.

      6. - UNDERSTAND THE SIX NEEDS OF MOURNING Need 4. Accept that your life is different now.

      7. - UNDERSTAND THE SIX NEEDS OF MOURNING Need 5. Think about why this happened.

      8. - UNDERSTAND THE SIX NEEDS OF MOURNING Need 6. Let others help you, now and always.

      9. - Let yourself feel numb.

      10. - Let

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