Resilient grieving
Subtitle: finding strength and embracing life after a loss that changes everything
By: Lucy Hone, PhD ; foreword by Karen Reivich, PhD
Contributors: Reivich, Karen; Hone, Lucy
Publisher: The Experiment
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781615193752
Subjects: Grief; Death; Emotions; Future life; Psychological aspects
Description: 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.
Notes: "Originally published in Australia and New Zealand as What Abi Taught Us by Allen & Unwin in 2016"--Title-page verso.

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