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Healing Power of Grief

The Healing Power of Grief is Gloria Linterman’s twenty-four month story about morning and healing following the death of her precious husband, Rick. It also features Dr. Marilyn Stolzman’s (a psychotherapist specializing in grief counseling) vision for healing, as she offers tools, not psychobabble, as a blueprint, to help us face our loss, mourn, and eventually, heal.
Included within the book is a 100+ page workbook, The Power of Thought, which guides readers through the time sequences of grief and healing.
“As the CEO of a mortuary and memorial park many grief recovery books cross my desk each year. All too often these books contain essential information but the presentation is imposing and esoteric. The Healing Power of Grief is written in everyday language and in an easy to understand format. The anecdotes are real life and relate to all who are in the successive stages of the grieving process. The workbook exercises are clear, helpful and direct the participant with meaningful topics. I would be proud to have this book in our library.” –Mark Friedman, CEO, Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary
About the Authors

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction
Mourners’ Bill of Rights
Grieving is
1. The five time sequences of grief
2. Time sequences of healing grief
The first four months: Shock
-Common questions
-Beginning to mourn
-Living through the pain
-Day-by-day grieving
-Sainthood
-Humor
-Healing from within
-Beginning to find answers
-Moving toward healing
-Understanding shock
-Helpful do’s and don’ts for the bereaved
-Helpful do’s and don’ts for friends and family of the bereaved
3. Time sequences of healing grief
Months five through eight: Denial
-Bereavement support group
-Honor yourself
-Yesterday, today and tomorrow
-Common questions
-Feeling out of control
-Group support
-Anxiety
-Reframing
-Firsts
-Dating
-Control
-Forgiveness
-Creating a will-balanced life
-The future
-Staying in the now
-Denial
-Helpful do’s and don’ts for the bereaved
-Helpful do’s and don’ts for friends and family of the bereaved
4. Time sequences of healing grief
Months nine through twelve: Anger
-Common questions
-Living with yourself
-Anxieties
-Hope
-Dating
-The world in between
-Freedom to be you
-Inner trust
-Anger—directed outward and inward
-Anger directed outward
-Anger directed inward
-Helpful do’s and don’ts for the bereaved
-Helpful do’s and don’ts for friends and family of the bereaved
5. Time sequences of healing grief
Months thirteen through seventeen: Depression
-Common questions
-Shifting emotions
-Ongoing guilt
-Depression
-Helpful do’s and don’ts for the bereaved
-Helpful do’s and don’ts for friends and family of the bereaved
6. Time sequences of healing grief
Months eighteen through twenty-four: Integration, adjustment, transition
-Common questions
-New romance
-Old friends lost
-Lingering feelings
-Leaving your bereavement support group
-Integration, adjustment and transitions
-Helpful do’s and don’ts for the bereaved
-Helpful do’s and don’ts for friends and family of the bereaved
-Moving beyond
Healing through creating balance by Jo Christner, Psy.D.
7. Morning non-traditional relationships
-Clark & Robert
-Helpful do’s and don’ts for the bereaved
-Helpful do’s and don’ts for friends and family of the bereaved
-Resources
8. Pennies from Heaven
9. A time for grief: Religious rituals and comfort
10. Organizations and support groups
11. Funeral resources
12. Additional resources

The Healing Power of Thought workbook
Introduction
Time sequence one
Time sequence two
Time sequence three
Time sequence four
Time sequence five
Bibliography
Appendix A: The H.O.P.E. Foundation
Appendix B: Life does go on
About the authors

Excerpt

Excerpt

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• Length: 8.50 in
• Width: 5.50 in
• Height: 0.00 in
• Weight: 18.00 oz
• Page Count: 378 pages