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    Healing After Loss: The Truth About the Brain and Soul Connection How to Change Your Mind, Master Your Emotions, Heal Your Life & Create a New You: Master Your Mind
    Healing After Loss: The Truth About the Brain and Soul Connection How to Change Your Mind, Master Your Emotions, Heal Your Life & Create a New You: Master Your Mind
    Healing After Loss: The Truth About the Brain and Soul Connection How to Change Your Mind, Master Your Emotions, Heal Your Life & Create a New You: Master Your Mind
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    Healing After Loss: The Truth About the Brain and Soul Connection How to Change Your Mind, Master Your Emotions, Heal Your Life & Create a New You: Master Your Mind

    By Madeline Holden

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    GRIEF IS ONE OF THOSE EMOTIONS THAT TOUCHES EACH OF US IN LIFE.We all experience the pain, emotional and physical effects, stresses and anxiety it brings in one way or another but incredibly each experience is unique and personal.

    Whether you are mourning the loss of a partner, friend, child, parent or a much loved pet, your experience is yours alone and your coping and healing journey is equally personal

    In this audiobook you will gain a new understanding of the stages of grief and how your recovery will improve with each passing phase, dealing with the real issues that must be faced each day and finding workable solutions to every problem.

    Not just a book that centres on helping you to mentally survive the pain of death or loss, this is also a practical guide which offers advice on supporting others in their grief, dealing with the inevitable financial implications that accompany it, as well as overcoming the difficult memories and anniversaries you will face without a loved one.

    Through daily reflection, spiritual wisdom, meditation, mindfulness and a host of other proven tools, you can deal with the grief that threatens your happiness and emerge as a more self-confident and assured person, ready to be happy once more.

    With courage and self-love you can truly achieve anything.

    If that sounds like something you and your loved ones would benefit from, this book is the answer to your questions

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMadeline Holden
    Release dateNov 1, 2021
    ISBN9798201352837
    Healing After Loss: The Truth About the Brain and Soul Connection How to Change Your Mind, Master Your Emotions, Heal Your Life & Create a New You: Master Your Mind

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      Healing After Loss - Madeline Holden

      © Copyright 2021 by Madeline Holden All rights reserved.

      The content contained within this book may not be reproduced, duplicated or transmitted without direct written permission from the author or the publisher.

      Under no circumstances will any blame or legal responsibility be held against the publisher, or author, for any damages, reparation, or monetary loss due to the information contained within this book, either directly or indirectly.

      Legal Notice:

      This book is copyright protected. It is only for personal use. You cannot amend, distribute, sell, use, quote or paraphrase any part, or the content within this book, without the consent of the author or publisher.

      Disclaimer Notice:

      Please note the information contained within this document is for educational and entertainment purposes only. All effort has been executed to present accurate, up to date, reliable, complete information. No warranties of any kind are declared or implied. Readers acknowledge that the author is not engaged in the rendering of legal, financial, medical or professional advice. The content within this book has been derived from various sources. Please consult a licensed professional before attempting any techniques outlined in this book.

      INTRODUCTION

      Chapter One: The Journey into Grief

      Chapter Two: You are the Best Person to Cope with Your Own Grief

      Chapter Three: Understanding Grief and Recovery

      Chapter Four:  Stages of Grief

      Chapter Five:  Is My Heart Really Breaking?

      Chapter Six: The Journey from Self-Doubt to Self-Love

      Chapter Seven: Help Yourself: Start Your Journey

      Chapter Eight: Self-Exploration

      Chapter Nine:  Managing Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia

      Chapter Ten:  Handling Money and Finances after the Loss of a Family Member

      Chapter Eleven:  Managing Your Family after the Loss of a Loved One

      Chapter Twelve: What to Do When Your Friends and Family are Grieving

      Chapter Thirteen:  Supporting a Grieving Spouse or Life Partner

      Chapter Fourteen:  Supporting Grieving Children

      Final Words

      Resources

      INTRODUCTION

      The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.

      —Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

      Loss is a part of life. We know that inevitably, someone that we knew or loved, will pass away, because we all do eventually. Despite this understanding, the enormity of grief can be all-consuming. It is so easy to feel like you’re falling deeper and deeper into a bottomless sea, and no matter what you do, you can’t seem to find up from down. You might feel like it threatens to swallow you up, and the idea that life could ever be the same when you’re facing those waves of grief seems impossible.

      Grief is one of the most emotionally painful feelings we possess; the feeling of deep, intense yearning for someone we can no longer see can be overwhelming. It doesn’t matter who you lose in your life; whether you lose your spouse, your child, your parents, or anyone else, your grief is valid. If you’ve recently lost someone, or if you’re still struggling to cope with the bereavement from some time ago, you are facing immense pain that I wish no one had to feel. But, remember this: the grief you feel is proof of your love. It is proof that you and the other person shared a bond that was real. It is proof that the other person left an indelible mark on your heart.

      This pain can feel overwhelming. It’s hard to be able to cope with it as it comes and goes almost without any sort of pattern. Everyone has different answers for what you should do to feel better, but what no one prepares you for is the idea that grief will always be a part of you and your experience. But, even though that grief is there, it will become easier to live with for the most part. As you read through this book, I’ll walk you through some of the most important activities that have helped my children and me through the grieving process as we mourned the loss of my husband and their father. We made it from self-doubt to self-love, one step at a time. Sometimes, we fell and slipped and felt like we weren’t making progress. Other times, we felt like our hard work was paying off. We took it one day at a time, with activities like journaling, meditations, reading, and, yes, simply grieving. Sometimes, all we needed was a big cry. Other times, we’d set a picture at the dinner table.

      I’ll be honest with you: The grief has never fully gone. Not a day goes by where I don't think about my dear husband. I mourn the life that we had. I mourn the fact that he’s not there with me to watch my twins as they go through their milestones. Every birthday, every holiday, and every new skill learned feels like it’s tarnished by the idea that my dear husband isn’t here with us. We miss him every day, but the longer it’s been since his accident, the easier it becomes to think back to the good times without feeling like all I want to do is crawl into bed and hide. I can think back on our wedding day, or the day that our twins were born, and every other positive moment he was there. And I can do it without crying. I still miss him more than I can possibly express through words, but I also know that he wouldn’t want me to live consumed by my grief for him. Life goes on, and he’d want us to go on living.

      My husband was taken from us far too soon, leaving me behind as a single mother to our twins. Crushed by my sorrow and wanting to do more with myself, I realized something: Life is too short to waste. Instead of letting my life be wasted in grief and spending all my time at work to sustain what was previously a two-job family, I decided I needed a change. So, I quit my job. I chose to start working on myself and that became my newest passion. So, here I am today, a consultant and expert in mindfulness, mental wellbeing, and nutrition.

      As you read through this book, you will be gaining from my personal and professional work. These are actions that worked for me, helping me navigate through the stages of grief while managing my stress and anxiety. Mourning the loss of a loved one is incredibly physically and emotionally taxing. I’ve learned from that, and it’s essential that, no matter how little you may feel like taking care of yourself, that you do.

      People thank me for how my teachings have changed their lives and helped them manage their grief, for themselves, their children, and their loved ones. This recovery process helped me and my children cope with the loss of our husband and father, and you are about to learn about it yourself. Coping with such painful feelings is seldom easy in the sense that it will happen quickly, but it will come naturally if you can follow these steps. It might not ever fully go away, but one day, probably sooner than you think, you will be able to wake up, look at yourself in the mirror, and know that you will have a good day. Little by little, the good days will outnumber the bad. You’ll still be missing someone precious to you, but you’ll be able to live a good life in their honor.

      With my help and experience, you will gain those necessary skills to recognize and manage your grieving process. Knowing how to recognize and cope with grief sooner rather than later will help you manage it in the best way, to find spiritual wisdom, and to assist the people you love.

      Discover the activities that will help you process your feelings and develop the skills necessary to deal with grief every time it arises. It will come and go, sometimes stronger than others, but at the end of the day, you’ll be able to overcome it. I know this because I’ve experienced this process. So have my children. And you’re next.

      Grief will always be a part of your life once you’ve lost someone dear to your heart. Such a loss is unbelievably painful. But, as you read, you’ll learn how to overcome it.

      Chapter One: The Journey into Grief

      We all know that loss happens, but all too often, until it does happen, we tell ourselves that it will never happen to us. There’s no way that it could happen to us and, therefore, there’s no reason to pay much more attention to it than we have to. I never thought that I’d be widowed before my children were adults. I never dreamed my children would grow up without a parent. But, the unexpected happens, and, sometimes, we lose people.

      Each loss that people have is as individual as the people suffering from them. Every loss is as different as the people who were taken from us too soon. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to how you may feel, what you may think, or how you will recover. There is no standard for pain, and there is no way to compare your pain, as a spouse grieving the loss of your life partner, to someone who is grieving the loss of their child, or of their mother. You can’t even compare your loss to someone else who lost their spouse because we all handle these situations differently.

      All too often, when we mention that we’ve lost someone close to us, the other person nods sagely and comments that they can relate for some reason that isn’t really comparable. I’ve heard it all. I spoke to one client, let’s call her Ashley, grieving the loss of her baby to SIDS. She had already had multiple losses and struggled to stay pregnant. She thought her darling baby, who

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