Since its debut thirty years ago, this favorite by one of the world's
most beloved grief counselors has found a place in the homes and hearts
of hundreds of thousands of mourners across the globe. Filled with
compassion and hope, Understanding Your Grief helps you understand and
befriend your painful, complex thoughts and feelings after the death of
someone loved. Befriending grief may sound counterintuitive, but
actually, your grief is your love for the person who died in a different
form, and like that love, it's also natural and necessary. Perhaps above
all, Understanding Your Grief is practical. It's built on Dr. Wolfelt's
Ten Touchstones, which are basic principles to learn and actions to take
to help yourself engage with your grief and create momentum toward
healing. This second edition maintains the content of the first edition
but builds on it by adding concise wisdom on new topics such as the myth
of closure, complicated and traumatic grief, grief overload, unmourned
grief, loneliness, the power of ritual, and more. Excellent as an
empathetic handbook for anyone in mourning as well as a text for support
groups, Understanding Your Grief pairs with a guided journal.