Healing a Friend's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Helping Someone You Love Through Loss
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Healing a Friend's Grieving Heart - Alan D. Wolfelt
Tail!"
INTRODUCTION
In A.A. Milne’s beloved Winnie-the-Pooh, there is a story In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One.
The ever-dour Eeyore is moping about when the always-affable Pooh approaches and asks, And how are you?
Not very how,
Eeyore replies. I don’t seem to have felt at all how for a long time.
It turns out that Eeyore’s tail is missing.
The story continues:
Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn’t quite know what. So he decided to do something helpful instead.
Eeyore,
he said solemnly, I, Winnie-the-Pooh, will find your tail for you.
Thank you, Pooh,
answered Eeyore. You’re a real friend.
This purpose of this book is to help you do something helpful
for a grieving friend. To be bereaved is to be torn apart
and to have special needs.
Your friend probably isn’t feeling very how
these days, either. Like Pooh, you may not know always know what to say (see Ideas 11 and 15 for tips on listening and verbal support). But you can do many helpful, supportive, loving things to help your friend through her unique grief journey.
For some time now I have been teaching the concept of companioning
in the many grief workshops I teach across North America each year. I have taken liberties with the noun companion
and made it into the verb companioning
because it so well captures the type of helping relationship between friend and mourner that I advocate. Actually, the word companion, when broken down into its original Latin roots means messmate
: com for with
and pan for bread
. Someone you would share a meal with. A friend.
Your friend needs a companion in grief right now. (A whole network of companions would be best, but let’s isolate your role as companion in this discussion.) He needs someone who will be present to him, who will bear witness to his struggle, who will honor his unique journey through grief.
As promised, this book contains 100 practical ideas for friends, family members and caregivers who want to help mourners heal. Some of the ideas will teach you about the principles of grief and mourning. One of the most important ways you can help your friend is to learn about the grief experience; the more you know, the less likely you will be to unknowingly perpetuate some of our society’s harmful myths about grief and