Degriefing Manual

Degriefing Manual

This book has been many years in the making. It is a step by step endeavor that enables the reader to become familiar with the concept of grief, how society handles it, and how our particular cultural training influences what it is we say about grief and how we relate to it.

Lyn Prashant writes the way she speaks and therefore the book is straight from her intellect and goes right to the heart. Her claim that "the mind has a body and the body has a mind" speaks to the inseparable experience of the interrelationship between mind and body.

Degriefing is an approach intended to transform grief into healing. "Grief is the most available emotional resource for personal transformation" is Prashant's premise, therefore if we switch our thinking about grief We can see it as an opportunity for deepening self-awareness rather than an unfortunate affliction that wew just have to "get over". We never "get over" our losses, we change relationship to them with time and with deep emotional soul searching which can lead to healing.

Degriefing defines healing as an in depth mind, body, spirit integration, resulting in emotional harmony, whether a person lives, or does in fact die. As Eckardt Tolle explains, if we can see the bookends of our karmic journey as "birth and death", rather than "life and death", then we see life is what happens on the journey, unopposed and rich with opportunity.

Degriefing is life affirming with it's ability to use whatever is going on with an individual to bring clarity and humility to the process of coping with loss. Grief is the body's response to loss, any loss and the degrees of grief are what we work with. Because fresh grief stimulates old unresolved issues of loss the individual may be flooded with memories and the Degriefing Process enables both the practitioner and client to work with any information that is available from the mind, bodily memory or present event specific details.

Any health care practitioner, clergy, or counselor dealing with issues of loss would most definitely benefit from having a copy of this manual, it is user friendly with charts, exercises and definitions and premises that help redefine our relationship to grief as a constant of the human condition

This book will:

Offer easy access to charts for the combination of conventional and integrative therapeutic modalities
Dispel the main myths about grief
Provide definitions for many of the terms we need to understand to do grief work well
Offer a humanistic approach to naming and recognizing and transforming grief
Demystify the professional office setting as well as the basic premises needed to efficiently work with grief.
Support the practitioner to make referrals for the highest good of the client
Normalize the emotional experience of being "griefstricken"
Provide charts and lists that are designed to assist the grieving individual.

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