It's ok that you're not ok meeting grief and loss in a culture that doesn't understand
"In It's OK That You're Not OK, Megan Devine offers a profound new approach to both the experience of grief and the way we try to help others who have endured tragedy"--Amazon.com.
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Boulder, CO :
Sounds True,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Mark Nepo
- Part I. This is all just as crazy as you think it is
- The reality of loss
- The second half of the sentence: why words of comfort feel so bad
- It's not you, it's us: our models of grief are broken
- Emotional illiteracy and the culture of blame
- The new model of grief
- Part II. What to do with your grief
- Living in the reality of loss
- You can't solve grief, but you don't have to suffer
- How (and why) to stay alive
- What happened to my mind? Dealing with grief's physical side effects
- Grief and anxiety: calming your mind when logic doesn't work
- What does art have to do with anything?
- Find your own image of "recovery"
- Part III. When friends and family don't know what to do
- Should you educate or ignore them?
- Rallying your support team: helping them help you
- Part IV. The way forward
- The tribe of after: companionship, true hope, and the way forward
- Love is the only thing that lasts
- Appendix. How to help a grieving friend.
