Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas

Author(s): Alan D Wolfelt PhD

Grief & Loss

With sensitivity and insight, this book offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally.


Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies. This book provides ideas and action-oriented tips that teach the basic principles of grief and healing. These ideas and activities are aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void so that the living can begin their lives again. Included in the books are age-appropriate activities that teach younger people that their thoughts are not only normal but necessary.


Product Information

"Wolfelt states his desire to respect each person's pace, to respect individuality and to offer sensitive support" - Cruse Bereavement Care, Winter 2004.

Alan D Wolfelt PhD, serves as director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition. He writes the 'Children and Grief' column for Bereavement Magazine and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, and Today. He is the author of Healing Your Grieving Heart, Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart, and Understanding Your Grief. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

General Fields

  • : 9781879651234
  • : Independent Publishers Group
  • : ebrandedbooks.com,US
  • : 01 January 2001
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Alan D Wolfelt PhD
  • : Paperback
  • : 155.9370835
  • : 128
  • : JM