The Healing Your Grieving Heart Journal for Teens (Healing Your Grieving Heart series)

In light of how difficult it is just to survive the teenage years, the grieving process can be especially difficult and overwhelming for teenagers. This diary affirms the grieving teen's journey and offers gentle, healing guidance. In order to sort through their confusing feelings and thoughts, teens are prompted to explore simple, open-ended questions. Teens are encouraged to write what they miss about the person who died, the specific feelings that have been most difficult since the death, or the things they wish they had said to the person before they died. In light of how difficult it is just to survive the teenage years, the grieving process can be especially difficult and overwhelming for teenagers. This journal affirms the grieving teen's journey and offers gentle, healing guidance. In order to sort through their confusing feelings and thoughts, teens are prompted to explore simple, open-ended questions. Teens are encouraged to write what they miss about the person who died, the specific feelings that have been most difficult since the death, or the things they wish they had said to the person before they died.

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 7 Contents......Page 8 Foreword......Page 10 A Note from Megan......Page 12 Introduction......Page 16 Getting Started: Why Your Grief Is What It Is......Page 24 Exploring Your Feelings of Loss......Page 56 Understanding Your Six Needs of Mourning......Page 68 How You’ll Know You’re Healing: Reconciliation......Page 92 Memories: Capturing, Treasuring, Living On......Page 96 Getting to Know Yourself: The Real You......Page 108 The Mourner’s Code......Page 116 A Final Word......Page 120 Your Continuing Journey: Reflections As You Grow......Page 122 Encourages teens to learn about grief and mourning and record their unique thoughts and feelings. Topics include: what makes each teen's grief unique; common feelings after a death; the six needs of mourning; capturing memories of the person who has died; and achieving reconciliation