Healing Your Traumatized Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Someone You Love Dies a Sudden, Violent Death (Healing Your Grieving Heart series)

Dealing with grief in a practical manner, this guide offers compassionate tips for those affected by a traumatic death. Included are topics such as coping with family stress, expressing feelings of hurt and anger, dealing with hurtful comments, and exploring feelings of guilt. Each of the 100 suggestions is aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void in order to help survivors begin their lives again. Some of the tips include understanding the special characteristics of trauma grief, planting a tree in memory of the person who died, and making connections with others affected by a similar death. Author Biography: Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition, a faculty member at the University of Colorado Medical School, and the author of Understanding Grief: Helping Yourself Heal , Journey Through Grief: Reflections on Healing , and the Healing a Grieving Heart series. He is best known for his method of "companioning" versus treating the bereaved. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. Copyright Page......Page 6 Introduction......Page 8 Ideas 1-10......Page 12 Ideas 11-20......Page 22 Ideas 21-30......Page 32 Ideas 31-40......Page 42 Ideas 41-50......Page 52 Ideas 51-60......Page 62 Ideas 61-70......Page 72 Ideas 71-80......Page 82 Ideas 81-90......Page 92 Ideas 91-100......Page 102 A Final Word......Page 112 The Mourner's Code......Page 114 Provides one hundred tips for coping with traumatic death, including practical ideas for managing family stress, exploring feelings of guilt, and expressing anger. "For those who grieve after a homicide, suicide or accidental death."--Cover.