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Resource Review: Honoring Grief (book)

6/8/2015

Honouring Grief: Creating a Space to Let Yourself Heal by Alexandra Kennedy
2014 trade paperback and ebook, New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
Available at Halifax Public Libraries, Chapters and Amazon

A compact (15.5 cm high by 11 cm wide), 139-page book that focuses on the nature of grief and what we can expect; creating a 'sanctuary;' healing old hurts, saying good-bye and expressing love; and recreating our lives after loss. Honoring Grief: Creating a Space to Let Yourself Heal is a secular work...

Self Compassion in Grief: A Collection of Tasks (Part 1)

18/5/2015

Grief and loss can call on us to take up a challenge of tasks -- not a list of tasks to check off one by one, but, instead, a series of on-going experiments in self compassion.

Navigating grief and loss is tricky. It's gritty. Testing and exploring what works for us can feel like fumbling around in the dark. However, the reward can be a greater sense of self assurance and confidence in our process. Here are some of the tasks I've encountered in my work in palliative care bereavement and in my own journeys in grief...

Self Compassion in Grief: A Collection of Tasks (Part 2)

18/5/2015

Working through grief and loss can be seen as a series of tasks -- or as a series of experiments in self compassion. Of course, our experiences in grief and loss are as individual as fingerprints. We discover our tasks differently and navigate them in our way, in our time. The process and the outcomes will have unique meanings for each of us.

In keeping with part one of this post, here are some of the tasks I've encountered in my work in palliative care bereavement and in my own journeys in grief...

Resource Review: Coping with Grief (Audio Meditation)

18/5/2015

Coping with Grief: Guided Spoken Meditation for Healing After a Loss of a Loved One
2014, Jason Stephenson channel, YouTube
A 19-minute, free-of-charge, non faith-based audio meditation with soft, synthesized tones that guides listeners through a meeting with their loved one. Narrated by Jason Stephenson and written by Amelia Schmelzer with music by Jordan Jessep...

Resource Review: Honoring Grief (book)

Self Compassion in Grief: A Collection of Tasks (Part 1)

Self Compassion in Grief: A Collection of Tasks (Part 2)

Resource Review: Coping with Grief (Audio Meditation)

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