Based on the bereavement classic I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye, this grief and loss workbook offers step-by-step support and encouragement on your way to understanding and dealing with grief. Called a support group in your hands by professionals and mourners alike, I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye: A Companion Workbook acts as a comforting touchstone to navigate the unique emotions and challenges when learning how to cope with death. Tapping into their personal histories and drawing on numerous interviews, authors Brook Noel and Pamela D. Blair, PhD, explore sudden loss and its role in the cycle of life. Using a combination of self-exploration questions, visualization activities, and journaling, grieving readers will learn how to work through their anger, guilt, and loss of purpose towards an uplifting place of endurance and growth. The updated edition also touches upon new discussions, including: The unique circumstance of lossMen and women’s grieving stylesReligion and faithGrief’s unanswerable questions.Combined with the classic grief recovery book I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye, this workbook truly places a support vehicle in the hands of those who are mourning. Praise for I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye:
This book, by women who have done their homework on grief, can hold a hand and comfort a soul through grief ‘s wilderness. - George C. Kandle, Pastoral Psychologist
As one who deals with unexpected death, I am so pleased to find a truly valuable reference for those souls who are blindsided by such misery. - E. Charles Douville, MD, Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Providence, Portland
The authors have captured a means of discussing and exploring a very painful life passage in real life, down to earth language and experience. Many thanks to Pam and Brook for their generosity in sharing their discoveries to further our healing. - Charlotte A. Tomaino, PhD, Neuropsychologist