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The Long Grief Journey: How Long-Term Unresolved Grief Can Affect Your Mental Health and What to Do About It Pamela D Blair Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Pamela D Blair, Bradie McCabe Hansen

ISBN(s): 9781728262680, 1728262682

Edition: 1st

File Details: EPUB, 2.83 MB

Year: 2023

Language: English

SKU: EB-47487318 Categories: Relationships & Lifestyle - Health - Diseases & Disorders, Self-Help Tags: Affect, Bradie McCabe Hansen, Mental Health, Pamela D Blair, Unresolved

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Author: Pamela

The Long Grief Journey
How Long-Term Unresolved Grief Can Affect Your Mental Health and What to Do About It

An essential grief guide and recovery workbook for those who have said, “I thought I’d feel better by now.” Grief does not follow a timeline or a set path. It is nonlinear and messy, doubling back on itself just when you thought you were out of the woods. Those who have experienced the loss of a loved one know this unequivocally, but Western society still seems to think that grief should only last six months to a year—tops—when in fact, grief can last throughout a person’s entire life and manifest as serious mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, anger, and despair. The Long Grief Journey, co-written by a psychotherapist and a clinical psychologist who have both worked with grieving individuals for decades, is for the people who are past the acute pain and effects of a sudden loss and are now learning to live beyond that. It is for those who by all appearances seem to have “moved on.” They’re working, carrying out their responsibilities, showing up for important life events, yet they quietly bear the weight of their sadness and longing for their loved one. There’s a name for this type of long-term, unresolved grief. In fact, there are several: complicated grief, traumatic grief, complex bereavement, prolonged grief, extended grief, abnormal grief, exaggerated grief, and pervasive grief disorder. If you feel “stuck” after experiencing the death of a loved one, even if much time has passed, this book is for you. With exercises, journal prompts, and rituals that will further help readers along their grief path, The Long Grief Journey, co-written by one of the authors of the classic grief book, I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye, is designed to educate, support, and coach you to rekindle a desire to live life fully, all while still cherishing and embracing the memories of your loved one. Named one of Choosing Therapy’s “14 Best Books on Losing a Parent for 2022.”

Table contents:

Authors’ Note on Confidentiality
Introduction
1 Our Stories
2 Understanding the Emotional and Physical Effects of Long-Term Grief
What Is Assimilated Grief?
The Effects and Expression of Long-Term Grief
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Long-Lasting Grief
Magical Thinking
Questions You May Ask Yourself
3 Regaining Your Bearings: The Search for Purpose and Meaning
What Was All This For?
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
What Page Are You On?
Saying Hello Again
Envisioning the Future
Faith Traditions and Accessing Support
Heritage Customs
Candle Ritual
Daily Journaling
Logging Your Dreams
4 Where Is Everybody? My Emotional Support Is Gone
The Thing About Culture and Grief
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
The H.A. Exercise
Draw From a New Well
If Roles Were Reversed
5 Frustration with Yourself, Anger, and Disappointment with Others
Frustration and Disappointment are Underrated Emotions
Great Expectations
The Variability of Healing
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
Compare and Contrast No More
Walking Into Awareness
Dialogue with the “Block”
Timed Feelings
Shake It Out
I’m Happy When…
Trust Is a Bridge
Curiosity Is Connection
6 Hidden Longing and the Value of Bringing It Into the Light
Maintaining Connection
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
Let Yourself Talk
Learn More About Them
Create a Memory Box
Set a Memory Table
Honor Days
Ancestry Research
7 Your Loved Ones Are Not Their Stuff
The Hold of Our Loved One’s Belongings
When Holding On Becomes Hoarding
Fast vs. Slow Approach
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
Ten Things I Did Today
Identify the Why
Identify the Essence of Your Loved One
Choosing a Support Person
Identify Meaningful Places to Donate Items
Creative Ways to Repurpose Clothing
Making Decisions About Journals
Religious or Spiritual Artifacts
8 You Didn’t Get to Grieve the Way You Wanted
Why Disenfranchised Grief Hurts So Much
The Importance of Reclaiming Your Right to Grieve
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
Start With Self Compassion
Water Ritual
Seasonal or Yearly Acknowledgments
Releasing the Specter of Resentment
Shedding Judgments: A Visualization
There’s a Club for This
9 Loneliness
The Trouble with Loneliness
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
Who Am I Without You?
You Are Someone Worth Getting to Know
Tenderness Scavenger Hunt
Eye to Eye
10 Every Loss Changes Your Life, Physically and Emotionally
Stress and Other Worries
Healing from the Exhaustion of It All
Trusting Your Decisions
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
What Am I Doing?
Managing Your Money
Getting Clear and Making a Plan
What Home Means to You
Claiming Your Space
Marking the Transition from Before to After
Crossing the Threshold of Your New Space
11 When Will the Other Shoe Drop? Bracing Yourself against Future Loss
Responding versus Reacting to Stress
When Children Are Afraid That People They Love Will Die
Cultivating Resilience in the Face of the Unknown
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
Gathering Your Nerves and Giving Them Love
Trust in Your Future Self
Put Down Your Sword When You Don’t Need It
12 Will It Ever Get Easier? Navigating Holidays, Special Occasions and Anniversaries
The Cyclic Nature of Grief
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
Honoring Rhythm
Nature: The Reminder
How to Bring Your Loved One to the Gathering
13 Some Relationships Change: This Can Be Another Loss
Not Everyone Can Walk the Whole Journey with You
Family Connections Change, Too
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
What Roads Do I Want Company On?
Saying “Yes” and “No” Authentically and Without Guilt
Moving the Family Mobile
14 “I’m a Different Person Now”: Discovering Who You Are Without Your Loved One
Getting in Touch with You Again
Feeling Stronger and Setting Boundaries
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
Acknowledge How You’ve Changed
This Isn’t the End of the Story—What Comes Next?
Making Contact with Yourself
15 Helping Children Cope with Long-Term Grief While Tending to Yourself
Spotting Long-Term Grief in Children
A Life Redefined
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
Making the Most of a Move from a Family Home
Ancestor Veneration
Identify Relevant Symbols
Notice the Rhythms
16 When There Was Pain in Your Relationship
Healing the Wounded Heart While Grieving
Inherited Grief and Trauma
Intergenerational Healing and Evolution
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
Wisdom I Am Cultivating from This Relationship
Manifest What You Yearn For
Releasing What’s Not Yours to Carry
17 Guilt and Regret: The Challenges and Rewards
The Difference Between Guilt and Regret
Regret Is a Teacher
Attending to Guilt
Put Down Guilt That’s Not Yours
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
Regret and Wisdom Gained
Letting the Truth Out and In
I Don’t Need This
18 When Catastrophic Things Happen
Ambiguous Loss
Concurrent Stressors and Traumas
Breaks in Ritual and Ceremony
Personal and Collective Responses
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
Find Your Power
Transforming Rumination into Wisdom
Community Memorial
Claim Your Right to Ritual
Get Involved and Get Creative
19 When You are Walking with Someone Else on Their Long Journey
Accept That Your Loved One Might Never Be the Same
Lightening Their Load
The Difference Between Helping and Enabling
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
Create Space for Your Own Feelings
Hang Up the Superhero Cape
Boundaries Are Not Mean
20 Walking toward a New Day
Where Are You Now, and What Do You Need?
Questions You May Ask Yourself
Exercises and Rituals That Can Help
Crystalize the Gift and Honor It
Release Pressure, Apply Love
Look Toward the Horizon
21 Specific Kinds of Loss
Loss of a Parent
Loss of a Partner
Loss of a Child
Loss of a Sibling
Loss of a Grandparent
Loss of a Friend
Loss to Suicide
Loss of a Pet
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Works Consulted
Appendix
Index
About the Authors