Grieve loss and integrate it into your life

Understanding loss and the natural process of grieving

Whether the death of a loved one is sudden or expected, grieving is a difficult yet transformative process. Covering all types of profound losses, including parents, spouses and partners, children, siblings, friends, and pets, this compassionate resource provides the plainspoken wisdom needed to move through the phases, stages, and tasks of grieving.

• Honor your own grieving

• Support the grieving of others

• Help children with grief and loss

• Find professional and peer support

• Express and release grief

• Get through holidays and anniversaries

Coping and recovery strategies for dealing with the loss of a loved oneWhether the death of a loved one is sudden or expected, grieving the loss is a difficult yet transformative process. Grieving For Dummies approaches this very important subject with sensitivity, helping readers who are grieving the loss of a loved one as well as those who want to support them in this process. This compassionate guide covers all types of profound losses, including parents, spouses and partners, children, siblings, friends, and pets. It also addresses children's grieving and how the manner of death may cause additional hurdles to grieving the loss. The book is filled with practical suggestions for moving through the phases, stages, and tasks of grieving with an eye towards successfully integrating the loss of a loved one, while at the same time, keeping the love shared alive.Greg Harvey, PhD (Inverness, CA) has studied the culture surrounding death and dying for years. He is a member of the American Academy of Bereavement from which he received bereavement facilitator training and the Association of Death Education and Counseling (ADEC). He has taken many courses in death and dying as part of his doctorate program, and did his comprehensive exams in death and dying in Western and Eastern cultures and religions. Currently, Greg works as a patient care, vigil, and bereavement volunteer for the second oldest hospice in the United States in and around San Francisco. He is the bestselling author of many previous Dummies books.