Healing your grief when disaster strikes : 100 practical ideas for coping after a tornado, hurricane, flood, earthquake, wildfire, or other natural disaster / Alan D. Wolfelt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfelt, Alan, author.

Series:

The 100 Ideas Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Healing--Psychological aspects.

Healing.

Grief.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 p.)

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colorado : Companion Press, 2014.

Summary:

When your family, neighborhood, city, or area of the country is affected by a natural disaster, it's normal and necessary to feel grief and the traumatic experience of actually witnessing and surviving the event may be consuming you. This book will help you understand and embrace your difficult thoughts and feelings. It will be a compassionate companion to you as you move through shock and numbness and struggle with ongoing grief symptoms such as fear, guilt, and sadness. Some of the 100 ideas explain the basic principles of grief and mourning a

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Also by Alan Wolfelt; About Companion Press; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 100 Ideas; 1. Understand what it means to be "traumatized"; 2. First, seek safety and comfort; 3. Understand the difference between grief and mourning; 4. Understand that grief following trauma can be particularly difficult; 5. Allow for numbness; 6. Consider yourself in "emotional intensive care"; 7. Inventory your losses; 8. Be aware of the risks; 9. Allow yourself a time of limbo; 10. Stay in touch with your feelings

11. Understand the six needs of mourning: Need #1. Acknowledge the reality of what happened12. Understand the six needs of mourning: Need #2. Let yourself feel the pain of your losses; 13. Understand the six needs of mourning: Need #3. Participate in memorializing what was lost; 14. Understand the six needs of mourning: Need #4. Develop a new self-identity; 15. Understand the six needs of mourning: Need #5. Search for meaning; 16. Understand the six needs of mourning: Need #6. Receive ongoing support from others

17. Be aware that your grief affects your body, heart, mind, social self, and spirit18. Tell your story; 19. Listen to the stories of others; 20. Consider humankind's stories of disaster; 21. Re-establish a routine; 22. Embrace the uniqueness of your grief; 23. Don't fall victim to the cliché that time alone heals all wounds; 24. Let go of other destructive myths about grief and mourning; 25. Make mourning a family affair; 26. Understand the pressure cooker phenomenon; 27. Limit your media exposure; 28. If you're suffering from afar...

29. Understand that the disaster experience may compound pre-existing griefs and struggles30. Take care of your body; 31. Be honest with the children; 32. Draw a "grief map"; 33. Build on internal strengths; 34. Get help with financial stresses; 35. Look into EMDR therapy; 36. Attend a ceremony; 37. Make a call for help; 38. Guard against scams; 39. Schedule something that gives you pleasure each and every day; 40. Remember the rule of thirds; 41. Take it slow; 42. If you feel afraid, find ways to feel safer; 43. If you feel guilt, express it; 44. If you feel anger, express it

45. If you feel sadness, express it46. If you feel happiness, express it; 47. Relinquish control...; 48. ...but take control of what you can; 49. Learn to meditate; 50. Create a memory book or box; 51. Learn the science; 52. Marvel at creation; 53. Spend healing time in nature; 54. Connect online; 55. Make a silk purse out of a sow's ear; 56. Save up for the next rainy day; 57. Reassess your insurance; 58. Leverage technology; 59. Laugh; 60. Cry; 61. Practice breathing in and out; 62. Accept that there may be no answers; 63. Start (or renew) a daily spiritual practice; 64. Sleep

65. Reach out and touch

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 12, 2014).

ISBN:

1-61722-210-0