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Doing Your Homework
“Bibliotherapy” refers to the use of books, magazines, videos, websites, and brochures to support client change (and in this case, we are the “clients”!). Gathering information and material in an attempt to understand the physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual, behavioral, social, spiritual effects of grief and trauma may equip you to:
- understand that your own grief/trauma process is “normal”
- lessen your isolation, in realizing that you are not alone in your transformation
- recognize small steps you can take in order to promote your own healing
- guide friends and family as to how to help you- they want to help but don’t know how
Try these A2Z activities:
Resources
Books
Grief
- How to Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies by Therese Rando
- On Grief and Grieving by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross & David Kessler
- Living with Loss, One Day at a Time by Rachel Blythe Kodanaz
- Permission to Mourn: A New Way to Do Grief by Tom Zuba
- The Grief Recovery Handbook by The Grief Recovery Institute
- I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye by Brook Noel & Pamela Blair
- A Grace Disguised: How The Soul Grows Through Loss by Jerry Sittser
- From Grief to Growth by Paula Stevens
Trauma
- Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body by Peter Levine
- Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal by Belleruth Naparstek
- Transforming Traumatic Grief: Six Steps to Move from Grief to Peace After the Sudden or Violent Death of a Loved One by Courtney Armstrong
- What Doesn’t Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth by Stephen Joseph
- The PTSD Solution by Alan Wolfelt PhD
Stress
- Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- The Ten Things to do When Your Life Falls Apart by Daphne Rose Kingma
Websites
- Griefnet.org - general loss
- ProjectRebirth.org - first responders & military resiliency programs
Spousal Loss
Child Loss
Parental Loss
Military Loss
Suicide Loss
- FriendsforSurvival.org (suicide loss)
Other
- Books and Cds by Stephen Levine - grief and meditation educator
- Posttraumatic Growth Research Group at UNC Charlotte
How will you do your homework to promote your healing journey?
