A Crash Course in Grief Recovery


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Grief Recovery Programs For Business & Industry: Combine Deming's "team", (or support group) approach with grief re- covery principles and you have an unbeatable organization. Churches: Christ centered programs for youth leaders, home groups, Bible studies, widows, people suffering with health issues, divorce, relational problems, miscarriage, death of a sibling, parent, friend, child, or anything grief related. Beauty shops: dealing with grief on a daily basis. Untapped public relations opportunities. Nursing Homes: Help staff deal with constant grief. Recovery groups for patients and families. They're grieving too. Life appreciation moments for deceased patients. Funeral Homes: Grief recovery resource center. Wave of the future or giant Tsunami? Support groups for people setting up mortuary trusts and pre-arrangements. They're grieving. How to Organize and facilitate widowed person's social groups. P/R opportunities. Taking grief recovery programs to your community. . Grief recovery support groups. The most effective P/R program ever! Veterans groups: support for readjusting to civilian and family life. New VA programs. Police and fire departments: A closer bond within units. Solid recovery. Youth leaders: coaches, Scout troops, Civil Air Patrol, military reserve units. Christian and home schools: behavioral problems could be grief related. Grief recovery support groups for teachers. Teacher facilitated groups for students. Meaningful Life Appreciation Service : following a death in school, group or workplace. For anyone struggling with grief: "Why did God take my loved one?" "Can I communicate with the dead?" "I'm mad at God!" "How do I deal with unfor- giveness, woundedness. anger, guilt and fear?" . For a child:" Will I see my pet that died, in heaven?" "Will it come back as another animal?" " How can my pet be in heaven with God and be buried out back under the lilac bush at the same time? Veterinarians: Helping owners deal with the death of their pet. Organizing and facilitating short term support groups for grieving pet owners. Other great P/R programs. including answers for kids dealing with death for the first time.




A Crash Course In Grief Recovery


Book Description

Grief Recovery Programs For Business & Industry: Combine Deming's "team", (or support group) approach with grief recovery principles and you have an unbeatable organization. Churches: Christ centered programs for youth leaders, home groups, Bible studies, widows, people suffering with health issues, divorce, relational problems, miscarriage, death of a sibling, parent, friend, child, or anything grief related. Beauty shops: dealing with grief on a daily basis. Untapped public relations opportunities. Nursing Homes: Help staff deal with constant grief. Recovery groups for patients and families. They're grieving too. Life appreciation moments for deceased patients. Funeral Homes: Grief recovery resource center. Wave of the future or giant Tsunami? Support groups for people setting up mortuary trusts and pre-arrangements. They're grieving. How to Organize and facilitate widowed person's social groups. P/R opportunities. Taking grief recovery programs to your community. Grief recovery support groups. The most effective P/R program ever! Veterans groups: support for readjusting to civilian and family life. New VA programs. Police and fire departments: A closer bond within units. Solid recovery. Youth leaders: coaches, Scout troops, Civil Air Patrol, military reserve units. Christian and home schools: behavioral problems could be grief related. Grief recovery support groups for teachers. Teacher facilitated groups for students. Meaningful Life Appreciation Service: following a death in school, group or workplace. For anyone struggling with grief: "Why did God take my loved one?" "Can I communicate with the dead?" "I'm mad at God!" "How do I deal with unforgiveness, woundedness. anger, guilt and fear?" For a child: "Will I see my pet that died, in heaven?" "Will it come back as another animal?" "How can my pet be in heaven with God and be buried out back under the lilac bush at the same time?" Veterinarians: Helping owners deal with the death of their pet. Organizing and facilitating short term support groups for grieving pet owners. Other great P/R programs. including answers for kids dealing with death for the first time.




A Crash Course in Grief Recovery


Book Description

Grief Recovery Programs For Business & Industry: Combine Deming's "team" (or support group) approach with grief recovery principles and you have an unbeatable organization.Churches: Christ centered programs for youth leaders, home groups, Bible studies, widows, people suffering with health issues, divorce, relational problems, miscarriage, death of a sibling, parent, friend, child, or anything grief related.Beauty shops: Dealing with grief on a daily basis. Untapped public relations opportunities.Nursing Homes: Help staff deal with constant grief. Recovery groups for patients and families. They're grieving too. Life appreciation moments for deceased patients.Funeral Homes: Grief recovery resource center. Wave of the future or giant Tsunami? Support groups for people setting up mortuary trusts and pre-arrangements. They're grieving.How to Organize and facilitate widowed person's social groups.P/R opportunities. Taking grief recovery programs to your community.Grief recovery support groups. The most effective P/R program ever!Veterans groups: Support for readjusting to civilian and family life. New VA programs.Police and fire departments: A closer bond within units. Solid recovery.Youth leaders: Coaches, Scout troops, Civil Air Patrol, military reserve units.Christian and home schools: Behavioral problems could be grief-related. Grief recovery support groups for teachers. Teacher facilitated groups for students.Meaningful Life Appreciation Service: Following a death in school, group or workplace.For anyone struggling with grief: "Why did God take my loved one?" "Can I communicate with the dead?" "I'm mad at God!" "How do I deal with unforgiveness, woundedness, anger, guilt and fear?"For a child: "Will I see my pet that died, in heaven?" "Will it come back as another animal?" "How can my pet be in heaven with God and be buried out back under the lilac bush at the same time?"Veterinarians: Helping owners deal with the death of their pet. Organizing and facilitating short term support groups for grieving pet owners. Other great P/R programs including answers for kids dealing with death for the first time.




101 Battle Tested P/R/ Strategies


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ARE YOU IN A LIFE OR DEATH BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL? Have you ever stood on the seashore just after a violent storm, and observed the crashing waves? In some areas, beaches are littered with wreckage of ships, and we shudder at their destruction. A mile or so down the beach, others may be standing on the edge of the water, with their surf boards, waiting for the next wave to recede, so they can follow it out, and ride the next one in. On one hand, disaster, on the other opportunity. How do funeral service professionals view this economic storm? Do they wonder how their funeral home can stay afloat in these turbulent economic waters, or go under like the Titanic. Funeral directors are experts at weathering economic typhoons and tornadoes. In my lifetime, I have seen them survive three major disasters, and come out better because of them.




Option B


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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life’s inevitable setbacks After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.” Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build. Option B combines Sheryl’s personal insights with Adam’s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Beginning with the gut-wrenching moment when she finds her husband, Dave Goldberg, collapsed on a gym floor, Sheryl opens up her heart—and her journal—to describe the acute grief and isolation she felt in the wake of his death. But Option B goes beyond Sheryl’s loss to explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war. Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere . . . and to rediscover joy. Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B illuminates how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces. Many of these lessons can be applied to everyday struggles, allowing us to brave whatever lies ahead. Two weeks after losing her husband, Sheryl was preparing for a father-child activity. “I want Dave,” she cried. Her friend replied, “Option A is not available,” and then promised to help her make the most of Option B. We all live some form of Option B. This book will help us all make the most of it.




Healing After Loss


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The classic guide for dealing with grief and loss. Daily reflections to find solace in our own lives, and comfort in the connection of sharing these meditations with countless others. After the focus on planning and outpouring of love from family and friends in the immediate aftermath following the loss of a loved one, we are left to enter a new version of our lives where someone important is missing. For days, months, years, the pain of the loss can crash in all at once. It is tempting to push that wave of grief back and soldier on with our new lives, but the loss will never lose its controlling power if we don’t find the courage and love to face it. Meditating on the loss, along with the rush of love that comes with it, gives us a chance to rejoice in the life that was shared, and to look forward in which memories of our loved ones continue to bless us. The short, poignant meditations given here follow the course of the year, but it is not a necessity to follow them chronologically. They will strengthen, inspire, and give comfort for as long as they are needed.




Too Much Loss: Coping with Grief Overload


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Grief overload is what you feel when you experience too many significant losses all at once, in a relatively short period of time, or cumulatively. In addition to the deaths of loved ones, such losses can also include divorce, estrangement, illness, relocation, job changes, and more. Our minds and hearts have enough trouble coping with a single loss, so when the losses pile up, the grief often seems especially chaotic and defeating. The good news is that through intentional, active mourning, you can and will find your way back to hope and healing. This compassionate guide will show you how.




Crash


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After 25 years of caring for children, first as a nurse, then as a pediatrician, Carolyn Roy-Bornstein finds herself on the other side of the stretcher when her 17-year-old son Neil is hit by a teenage drunk driver while walking his girlfriend Trista home after a study date. Trista did not survive her injuries. Neil carries his with him to this day. Gratitude for her son’s survival ultimately gives way to grief. While initially told Neil’s only injury was a broken leg, Roy-Bornstein quickly finds herself riding in the front seat of an ambulance transporting her son to the ICU at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston; his brain is bleeding. Roy-Bornstein is now not the patient’s doctor or nurse but his mom. The world she so easily navigates in a white uniform or a white coat now must be traversed, understood, and dealt with from the perspective of a parent. There are many dividing lines in this story. The line that divides this family’s life in two: the events that occurred before the crash and those that came tumbling and faltering in its wake. The line that separates grief from gratitude: gratitude that her son is alive and as whole as he is; grief for his loss of memory and changed personality and for having his whole world shattered in an instant. The line that separates the world Roy-Bornstein knew so well as a doctor from the new one she must now navigate as the parent of a trauma victim. In these pages she explores all of these boundaries: between then and now, grief and gratitude, before and after, us and them. Her many years as a "medical insider" bring her story authenticity and detail, while her newcomer status as the parent of a trauma victim add poignancy and warmth in this first memoir.




Loving Grief


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Bennett offers advice for those experiencing grief.




Crash Course


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Trauma following automobile accidents can persist for weeks, months, or longer. Symptoms include nervousness, sleep disorders, loss of appetite, and sexual dysfunction. In Crash Course, Diane Poole Heller and Laurence Heller take readers through a series of case histories and exercises to explain and treat the health problems and trauma brought on by car accidents.