Resilient grieving : finding strength and embracing life after a loss that changes everything

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Resilient grieving : finding strength and embracing life after a loss that changes everything

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What Abi taught us

Author:

Hone, Lucy, author.

Summary:

The death of someone we hold dear may be inevitable; being paralyzed by our grief is not. A growing body of research has revealed our capacity for resilient grieving, our innate ability to respond to traumatic loss by finding ways to grow -- by becoming more engaged with our lives, and discovering new, profound meaning. Author and resilience/well-being expert Lucy Hone, a pioneer in fusing positive psychology and bereavement research, was faced with her own inescapable sorrow when, in 2014, her 12-year-old daughter was killed in a car accident. By following the strategies of resilient grieving, she found a proactive way to move through her grief, and, over time, embrace life again. Resilient Grieving offers an empowering alternative to the five-stage Kübler-Ross model of grief--and makes clear our inherent capacity for growth following the trauma of a loss that changes everything.

General Note:

"Originally published in Australia and New Zealand as What Abi Taught Us by Allen & Unwin in 2016"--Title page verso.

Contents:

The end of the world as we know it -- Six strategies for coping in the immediate aftermath -- What can resilience psychology teach us about grieving? -- Accept the loss has occurred -- Humans are hardwired to cope -- Secondary losses -- Positive emotions -- Distraction -- Three habits of resilient thinking -- Relationships (and what friends and family can do to help) -- Strengths -- Managing exhaustion and depression through rest and exercise -- Reappraising your brave new world -- Facing the future -- Continuing the bond -- Post-traumatic growth -- Press pause -- Rituals and mourning the dead -- Nothing lasts forever -- A final word -- The resilient grieving model.

Physical Description:

xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Genre:

Self-help publications.

Subject Term:

Grief.

Death -- Psychological aspects.

Emotions.

Future life.

Publisher:

The Experiment,

Publication Date:

2017

ISBN:

9781615193752

Publication Information:

New York : The Experiment, [2017]

Call Number:

155.9 HONE

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The death of someone we hold dear may be inevitable; being paralyzed by our grief is not. Recent research has revealed our capacity for resilient grieving, our innate ability to respond to traumatic loss by finding ways to grow--by becoming more engaged with our lives, and discovering new, profound meaning.

Author and resilience/well-being expert Lucy Hone, a pioneer in positive psychology and bereavement research, was faced with her own inescapable sorrow when, in 2014, her 12-year-old daughter was killed in a car accident. By following the strategies of resilient grieving, she found a proactive way to move through her grief, and, over time, embrace life again.

"This book aims to help you relearn your world . . . to help you navigate the grieving process as best you can--without hiding from your feelings or denying the reality, or significance, of your loss."--from Resilient Grieving

Author Notes

Lucy Hone, PhD, researches resilience and well-being at the Auckland University of Technology. She received her master's degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, the world-renowned home of the field.

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Hone, a researcher in resilience/well-being psychology (Auckland Univ. of Technology, New Zealand) applied the sorrow she felt after her daughter's death to the development of practical strategies that can help the bereaved work toward acceptance of their loss and return to experiencing a full life. She shares strength-building tools that include thinking flexibly, embracing a personal moral compass, finding a role model, and nurturing a caring social network. Hone adds that one should welcome and enjoy positive emotions, and that communicating them to others is good for the soul. VERDICT There is a wealth of empathetic information in this book that will undoubtedly be uplifting to all who are grieving or know of others in the process. Excellent. © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Karen Reivich

Foreword	p. ix
1 The end of the world as we know it	p. 1
Recovery
2 Six strategies for coping in the immediate aftermath	p. 19
3 What can resilience psychology reach us about grieving?	p. 33
4 Accept the loss has occurred	p. 45
5 Humans are hardwired to cope	p. 53
6 Secondary losses	p. 65
7 Positive emotions	p. 75
8 Distraction	p. 97
9 Three habits of resilient thinking	p. 107
10 Relationships (and what friends and family can do to help)	p. 121
11 Strengths	p. 143
12 Managing exhaustion and depression through rest and exercise	p. 157
Reappraisal and Renewal
13 Reappraising your brave new world	p. 173
14 Facing the future	p. 181
15 Continuing the bond	p. 193
16 Post-traumatic growth	p. 203
17 Press pause	p. 211
18 Rituals and mourning the dead	p. 213
19 Nothing lasts forever	p. 223
20 A final word	p. 225
The Resilient Grieving Model	p. 228
Notes	p. 232
Permissions	p. 241
About the Author	p. 242

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