A Funeral Director on Life, Death, and the Hereafter
What if our dead remain with us? What if the hereafter intersects with the here and now? In All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak, sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde takes readers on a lyrical, tender quest to encounter the hereafter. Through stories of grieving family members who remain, we witness the thin places between life and death.
Creative Ideas to Transform Grief and Difficult Life Transitions
The Karuna Cards were developed in counseling with bereaved families and individuals, and are designed to help anyone struggling with loss, grief or difficult life transitions. Writing in a journal is an effective therapeutic technique, but many people find it difficult to know where to begin. The Karuna ......
Personal experience is woven together with expert knowledge in this compassionate, heart-centred guide to practicing creative grief therapy. Easy-to-use exercise guides work alongside poetic reflections on the nature of bereavement to create an accessible resource for practitioners to support their clients' journey through grief.
A Practitioner's Guide with Activities and Worksheets
Understanding loss and its effects is integral to effective counselling and support in the treatment of grief. This book is a both a guide to the key theories of bereavement, and a
practical workbook that can be used with clients to help them understand and work through their grief in a positive, transformative way. Divided into two ......
How can educators provide sensitive, effective support to students experiencing loss and grief? Get this practical, accessible guidebook from a veteran school crisis expert-filled with real-world tips and strategies for reaching and helping students of al
Activities For Helping Kids Cope When a Special Person Dies
An art therapy and activity book for children coping with death. Sensitive exercises address all the questions children may have during this emotional and troubling crisis. Children are encouraged to express in pictures what they are often incapable of expressing in words.
Just as grief is an experience that affects us physically, mentally, emotionally, cognitively, and spiritually, yoga sustains and strengthens us in all of those same areas. This book demonstrates how the principles and practices of yoga can help relieve symptoms of grief allowing those who have experienced loss to move toward wholeness, peace, and ......
Many women expect to become mothers but are childless through social rather than biological reasons - perhaps they haven't met the right person or they prioritised career or education earlier in life. Featuring international interviews by grief counsellor and researcher Lois Tonkin, this collection of first-person stories provides insight ......