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Inside the newly expanded and revised Lost My Partner, you’ll find these new chapters:
(NEW!) Adult Children/Step-children
Understand the reactions of your grown children as well as step-children.
(NEW!) I’m Not the Typical Partner
How different types of surviving partners can handle special challenges.
(NEW!) Going Solo
Simple tips for becoming more comfortable dining and vacationing on your own.
(NEW!) I Lost My Parent
Insights to help the adult child understand and best support their surviving parent.
PLUS more new tips and information throughout the book, such as in these key chapters:
Not Normal Is Normal
Make sense of your emotional, physical and behavioral symptoms.
When Will This Be Over?
How to stop panicking and make bereavement an easier journey.
You’re Young and Lost Your Partner
Learn what’s different for younger surviving spouses and how to cope.
Your Child’s Reactions
Understand the ways children and teens show their grief differently than adults do and how to best support them.
Back to Work
The best strategies for making it through a workday while you’re grieving.
Surviving Holidays and Other Special Occasions
Learn ways to plan ahead and prepare for these difficult times.
Am I Really Ready For This? (Now includes information about online dating.)
How to know when the time is right to move on to new relationships.
ClipThis Chapter and Carry It With You
Keep all the most useful and supportive sayings from the book in your purse or wallet for those times when you need some quick reassurance.
Resources For Help Along The Way (Now expanded and updated for the Internet!)
Locate support groups, hot lines, counseling resources, legal, financial and employment information and volunteer opportunities. Useful websites and books are also recommended.
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Table of Contents
Part One - WHAT’S GOING ON?
1. Not Normal Is Normal
2. When Will This Be Over?
3. Eating, Sleeping, and Other Necessities of Life
4. Anxious About Being Anxious?
5. Battling Guilt and Remorse
6. Angry? Why Should I Be Angry?
7. Scary Thoughts and Other Worries
8. Now Where Did I Leave Those Keys?
Part Two - NOT THE USUAL
9. My Loss Didn’t Happen In The Usual Way
10. You’re Young and Lost Your Partner
11. I’m Not The Typical Partner
Part Three - GETTING THROUGH THE DAYS
12. Spiritual Comfort
13. People Do Need People
14. Home Alone
15. Back to Work
16. Going Solo
17. Where’s The Fire?
18. Surviving Holidays and Other Special Occasions
19. Making Money Matters More Manageable
20. Postal Predicaments
Part Four - ALSO AFFECTED BY THE LOSS
21. Your Child’s Reactions
22. Adult Children/Step-children
23. I Lost My Parent
24. Other People’s Reactions
Part Five - MOVING ON
25. Shifting Gears
26. Am I Really Ready For This?
27. Clip This Chapter and Carry It With You
28. Resources For Help Along The Way
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