Healing Grief, Finding Peace: 101 Ways to Cope with the Death of Your Loved One

by Louis LaGrand

Overview

Featuring specific how-tos that ultimately lead the reader toward inner peace, Healing Grief, Finding Peace offers an innovative approach to grieving: readers can choose whichever coping techniques suit them best and learn to actively take back their lives one step at a time. Based in part on the survival skills workshops given by the author to the bereaved as well as professional grief counselors, the 101 coping strategies are presented in a practical, easyto- use format where the reader can begin with immediate access to whatever speaks to their needs the most

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402260407
Publisher:	Sourcebooks, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	207,138
File size:	715 KB

About the Author

Louis E. LaGrand, PhD, has been an expert in the field of bereavement for over thirty years. He is distinguished service professor emeritus at the State University of New York and adjunct professor of health careers at the Eastern Campus of Suffolk Community College in Riverhead, New York. He gives seminars and workshops on death-related topics in schools, hospices, and health agencies.

Editorial Reviews

""LaGrand's coping strategies...serve as building blocks for eventual healing. This book is particularly useful because readers can pick and choose techniques that are comfortable to them."" - Library Journal

From the Publisher

Sometimes help comes in a relatively simple format. Bereavement counselor LaGrand has extensive experience helping people deal with sudden as well as expected deaths of family members and friends. LaGrand's coping strategies are not quick fixes, but they serve as building blocks for eventual healing. He includes plans to develop resilience, inner strength, and basic survival. His methods of coping include being of service to others, making plans to deal with holidays, and starting a personal improvement project. This book is particularly useful because readers can pick and choose techniques that are comfortable to them.

Library Journal