Dr alan wolfelt grief and mourning book
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Dr. Alan D. Wolfelt is a noted author, educator, and grief counselor. Recipient of the Association for Death Education and Counseling's Death Educator Award, he serves as the Director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition in Fort Collins, Colorado. He is also a faculty member of the University of Colorado Medical School's Department of Family Medicine. In addition to presenting dozens of keynotes and workshops across North America each year, Dr. Wolfelt facilitates four-day training seminars for bereavement caregivers in Fort Collins. Dr. Wolfelt is a popular media resource who regularly provides his expertise to many top-tier television shows, newspapers, and magazines. He is the author of more than fifty bestselling book on grief and loss, including "Loving From the Outside in, Mourning From the Inside Out;" "Understanding Your Grief;""The Journey Through Grief;""Companioning the Bereaved:A Soulful Guide for Caregivers;""
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Dr. Alan Wolfelt, a grief counselor for more than 40 years and a renowned author and expert in all things related to grief and mourning, was asked bygd many of his clients to write about the loss of a soulmate, and this wonderful book, “When Your Soulmate Dies: A Guide to Healing Through Heroic Mourning,” is the result.
Love and grief are “two sides of the same precious coin,” he writes, as we cannot have grief without love. Even though Dr. Wolfelt does not rank grief, he acknowledges the fact that the more deeply we love, the more deeply we grieve.
Soulmate grief fryst vatten born out of a unique, profound connection and love between two people when that attachment fryst vatten torn apart. Usually, but not always, the soulmate is a lover, spouse or partner. A soulmate can also be a friend, a sibling or a child. Soulmate grief is more devastating than any other grief we may have experienced in the past and requires what Wolfelt calls “heroic mourning.” He analogizes heroi
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Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Alan Wolfelt, PhD
Dr. Wolfelt is known across America for his inspirational teaching gifts. His compassionate messages about healing in grief — based on his own personal losses as well as his professional experience supporting children, teens, adults and families over the last three decades — speak not only to the intellect but to the hearts of all who hear him. A prolific author, Alan has written more than 50 books on grief and mourning, including Understanding Your Grief,The Paradoxes of Mourning and Grief One Day at a Time. Perhaps best known for his model of “companioning” versus “treating” mourners, Alan is committed to helping people mourn well so they can live well and love well. Founder and director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition, he presents numerous educational workshops each year for hospices, hospitals, schools, universities, funeral homes, community groups and a variety of other organizations. He also teaches bereavement c