What Can I Do?: Ideas to Help Those Who Have Experienced Loss

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Augsburg Books, 1 de dez. de 2006 - 173 páginas
Barbara A. Glanz knows grief from personal experience. Her son died at a very young age and her husband of many years died recently. Although the ideas in the book come primarily from people who have lost a loved one, most of the ideas are applicable to any kind of loss: the loss of a job, a divorce, the loss of a relationship, the loss of a pet, the loss of health, a move, or desertion. Written for the person who wants to help the one who is grieving, this book is filled with immediately practical ideas as well as long term, specific ways to help someone move from grieving to growth, and eventually to cherishing good memories.
 

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Choose Your Words Carefully
24
The Blessing of Tears
36
Think about Immediate Needs
38
Anticipate the Persons Needs and Offer Practical Help
47
Remember the Children
54
Be the One to Reach Out
64
Use Your Unique Talents
72
Share Your Own Experiences
82
Do Little Things That Add Joy to Someones Day
124
Create Support Systems for People
132
Create Traditions That Keep the Memory of a Loved One Alive
140
Find a Concrete Way to Remember the Person Who Died
146
Share Your Learnings from a Loved Ones Life
154
Conclusion
162
Bibliography
164
Resources
167

Share Good Memories
91
Celebrate the Life of the Person
99
Keep Remembering the Bereaved Person Even Long after the Loss
107
Acknowledgments
169
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Página 30 - Death is nothing at all - I have only slipped away into the next room - I am I and you are you - whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
Página 30 - Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.
Página 16 - What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
Página 24 - When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
Página 24 - The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares," — Henri Nouwen "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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