Grief Day By Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living with Loss

by Jan Warner, Amanda Bearse (Foreword by)

Overview

Supportive readings and exercises to help you move through life after loss, one day at a time

Grief is complex; it may present itself differently on any given day. This grief recovery handbook offers daily reflections and practices that address the day-to-day emotions and experiences that accompany the grieving process so you can create a life in which peace—and even gratitude—can coexist with your grief.

Explore the stages of grief with a collection of quotes, musings, meditations, and more that are tied together by a weekly theme, allowing you to reflect on each concept in depth. Work through topics like loneliness, grief attacks, exhaustion, hope, love, and creating meaning. You'll find opportunities to write, draw, meditate, do breathing exercises, and more as you learn to live fully with your grief.

This grief recovery handbook helps facilitate healing with:

• 365 Daily reflections—Find a year's worth of readings that can be revisited as many times as you like as you move through the grieving process.
• Weekly themes—Explore feelings and experiences common to grief, including things left unsaid, unhealthy coping mechanisms, guilt, intimacy, and faith.
• 52 Healing exercises—Discover activities that help you process your feelings at the end of each week and develop skills for coping with grief as it arises.

Make peace with your grief one day at a time with the daily readings and exercises in this standout among grief books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781641521314
Publisher:	Callisto Publishing
Publication date:	09/25/2018
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	85,217
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

JAN WARNER created Grief Speaks Out, an online community that offers support and strength to over two million people around the world. A “Grief Warrior” herself, Jan has produced several films and theater productions, and is an avid world traveler.

Table of Contents

Foreword viii

Introduction x

How to Use This Book xii

Week 1 Stages of Grief? 1

Week 2 Loneliness 6

Week 3 Memory 11

Week 4 Who Am I Now? 16

Week 5 Beauty 21

Week 6 Time 26

Week 7 Fear 31

Week 8 Confusion (Fog) 36

Week 9 Denial 41

Week 10 Music 46

Week 11 Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms 50

Week 12 Numbness 56

Week 13 Exhaustion 61

Week 14 Anger 66

Week 15 Gratitude 71

Week 16 Friends and Family: Supportive, Unkind, or Simply Gone? 76

Week 17 Guilt 81

Week 18 Intimacy 86

Week 19 Abandonment 91

Week 20 Faith 96

Week 21 No One Understands How I Feel 101

Week 22 The Unbearable Weight of Grief 106

Week 23 Wearing a Mask 111

Week 24 Mood Swings/Grief Attacks 116

Week 25 Finding Community 121

Week 26 I Don't Like Who I Am Now 126

Week 27 Tears 131

Week 28 Considering Suicide 136

Week 29 Despair 141

Week 30 Hope 146

Week 31 So Much Left Unsaid, So Much Left Undone 150

Week 32 Regret 155

Week 33 I've Lost My Way 159

Week 34 Afterlife 164

Week 35 Love 169

Week 36 Crazy Things Grievers Do 174

Week 37 Those Dates: Anniversaries, Birthdays, Holidays 179

Week 38 Physical Symptoms 184

Week 39 Signs 189

Week 40 Honoring Our Dead 194

Week 41 Creating Meaning 199

Week 42 Showing Up 204

Week 43 Helping Others 209

Week 44 It Happens Every Day 214

Week 45 Was It Worth It? 219

Week 46 Standing Up for Grief 224

Week 47 Finding Solutions 229

Week 48 Come Back 234

Week 49 Resources 239

Week 50 Hooray for Me 244

Week 51 Acceptance? 249

Week 52 Healing? 254

Epilogue 261

Resources 262

Index 264

Editorial Reviews

"This is a beautiful book. Grief is a deeply personal and totally universal human experience. You will feel connected to humanity, comforted, and uplifted reading these poignant quotations and stories (including some of the author’s own struggles). Even if you are fortunate enough not to be living with loss and pain, this book will help you reach out to anyone grieving with greater understanding, compassion, and love."—Hayley Mills, award-winning actor in film and on stage

"This is quite literally a shattering book: it takes in both hands and smashes one of the most pernicious of our modern myths - that grief is an aberrant state, properly and speedily to be put away. It instead explores the idea of grief as a part of life. Thus repositioned, grief can be acknowledged as one (but only one) enduring element of the mourner’s identity. It’s a claim the author is too modest to make, but Grief Day by Day surely speaks to anyone having in some other way to get to grips with the ramifications of their own mortality. I read it with gratitude and humility."—Sarah Gristwood, best-selling author, historian, and commentator on the British royal family

"Jan Warner’s personal experience of grief has left her with profound wisdom about how to cope with this most painful—but most human—aspect of life. With Grief Day by Day, she has crafted a poignant and practical guide on how to approach and even learn from grief. Jan asserts that while none of us can totally escape grief, we can grow from the experience of coming to terms with our own pain and suffering."—Ferne Pearlstein, Director of The Last Laugh

"In Grief Day by Day, Jan Warner, founder of Grief Speaks Out, shares guidance and practical advice for living with loss. It is worth every blessed penny, because you will be keeping this life-changing book around for a long time."—Karen Hager, Intuitive Guide and Psychic Channel; host of "Out of the Fog"

"As a result of her grief over losing her wonderful husband, Artie, Jan Warner created Grief Speaks Out, now a flourishing community of over 2 million people worldwide. In Grief Day by Day, Jan packs her wisdom into a series of practices and guidance for those who know what it means to grieve. The book honors grief in its darkest forms, but also offers resting places, such as hope, faith, beauty, and music."—Kevin Allison, storyteller and host of the "Risk!" podcast

"Grief visits us all. How we respond to it can determine whether it stops us from living or deepens our humanness. Grief Day by Day is both a guidebook and a companion to anyone who finds themselves knee deep in one of life's most harsh realities. I am so grateful that Jan Warner found a way to give voice, through her experience of grief, to create this gift to the rest of us."—Doug O'Brien, Center for NLP & Hypnosis

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