GriefWords.com

	Our funeral home provides families with various pamphlets that share a wealth of information and guidance that may help families to cope during and after the loss of a loved one. These pamphlets are available at no cost or obligation to you.
Topics included are: Pre-Planning Your Funeral; Understanding Cremation; How to Get Through The First Weeks and Months After A Death; What to Know About Grief; Helping A Friend Through Grief; Twelve Ways to Deal with Your Grief; When Grief Surprises You; Is It Grief or Is It Depression?; Losing Your Spouse; Loss of A Parent: Teenage Grief; Helping Children Grieve; Grieving Children with Depression: Children & Grief By Ages & Stages; Loss of A Child; How to Rely On Your Faith While Grieving; Coping with Grief During A Holiday; Honouring & Coping with Anniversaries of Loss; Grief & Suicide Loss Survivor; and Losing A Loved One To Aids.
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GriefWords.com Grief: General These thoughtful articles provide guidance and direction for anyone touched by grief. The Journey Through Grief The Mourner's Bill of Rights Helping Yourself with Grief Someone you love has died. You are now faced with the difficult, but important, need to mourn. Mourning is the open expression of your thoughts and feelings regarding the death and the person who died. It is an essential part of healing. The following articles provide many practical suggestions to help you move toward healing in your unique grief journey. Helping Yourself Heal When Someone Dies Helping Yourself Heal When Your Child Dies Helping Yourself Heal When Your Spouse Dies Helping Yourself Heal When a Parent Dies Helping Yourself When a Baby Dies Helping Yourself Heal During the Holiday Season Helping Dispel 5 Common Myths About Grief Helping Yourself Live When You Are Seriously Ill Helping Yourself Live When You Are Dying Helping Others with Grief A friend has experienced the death of someone loved. How can you help? The following articles provide many practical suggestions for helping others with grief: Helping a Friend in Grief Helping a Man Who is Grieving Helping a Friend Who is Dying Helping a Friend Who is Seriously Ill Helping a Suicide Survivor Heal Helping a Homicide Survivor Heal Helping a Grandparent Who Is Grieving Helping a Grieving Friend in the Workplace Helping AIDS Survivors Heal Helping SIDS Survivors Heal Helping Your Family When a Member is Dying Helping Your Family When a Member is Seriously Ill Helping Your Family Cope When a Pet Dies Helping Your Family Decide if Organ and Tissue Donation is Right for You For and About Grieving Children and Teenagers Children and teenagers have special needs following the death of a friend or family member. The following articles provide wonderful insight in helping children and teens understand and express their grief. Helping Children Cope with Grief Helping Teenagers Cope with Grief Helping Infants and Toddlers When Someone They Love Dies Helping Children with Funerals Helping Children Understand Cremation Helping a Child Who is Seriously Ill Helping a Child Who is Dying Helping Grieving Children at School Helping Bereaved Siblings Heal Funerals, Memorials, Cremation and Related Topics The days following the death of a loved one can be filled with sadness and confusion. The following articles can help you understand the importance of the rituals surrounding death. Helping Your Family Personalize the Funeral Helping Create a Meaningful Eulogy Ten Freedoms for Creating a Meaningful Funeral Why is the Funeral Ritual Important? For Funeral Directors Effectively meeting the grief needs of customers in an increasingly impersonal world takes special effort on the part of professionals in the grief industry. The following articles are designed to help funeral directors gauge their own effectiveness and meet the challenges of serving customer needs. It's the Experience That Counts: Funeral Home Customer Service for Today's Families And We Wonder Why People Question the Need for Funerals... Creating Excellence in Customer Service The Dirty Dozen of Customer Service E-Serving Families: How Your Website Should Help Your Customers Listening to (and Satisfying) the Never-Satisfied Customer Serving Families and Caregivers with Education Understanding and Being Responsive to Today's Families For Hospices and Other Caregivers Caregivers have special needs of their own. The following articles are designed to help caregivers take care of themselves as well as those who are suffering from loss. Companioning the Bereaved: An Introduction Tenet 1: Companioning Principle Tenet 2: Companioning Principle The Awesome Power of "Telling The Story": Why I'm Proud to be a Grief Counselor Caregiver as Gardener: A Parable Companioning vs. Treating: Beyond The Medical Model of Bereavement Caregiving Growing Through Grief: The Role of Support Groups Responding to Problems in the Support Group Setting The Bereavement Caregiver's Self-Care Guidelines Copyright 2007, Center for Loss and Life Transition