Writing Through Bereavement

This workbook is designed to help bereaved parents find words for grief in their quest for well-being after the death of a child by offering a hands-on approach to therapeutic writing that can be used as a means of self-help, in collaboration with therapists, or in the context of support groups featuring writing for wellbeing.

Olga V. Lehmann, PhD, psychotherapist, educator, and mental health activist, as well as associate professor in psychology at the University of Stavanger (Norway). Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, professor emeritus at the University of Memphis, and diector of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition. Neimeyer has published 35 books, including New Techniques of Grief Therapy: Bereavement and Beyond and edits the Routledge Series on Death, Dying and Bereavement. Trine Giving Kalstad, MSc, is a social anthropologist and cognitive therapist who has, since 2001, been the director of public health and bereavement support in The Norwegian SIDS and Stillbirth Society (LUB). She is currently a PhD fellow at the Centre of Crisis Psychology, University of Bergen.

Therapeutic Writing through Grief: An Introduction 1. A Tale of Three Stories 2. What am I resisting? 3. Dialogue and self-compassion 4. Anger, shame compassion, and self-compassion 5. Loving-kindness as we tend to our life story 6. From Self-Blame to Life Lessons 7. Meaning in Life Epilogue: Finding Meaning in Mourning