| Description |
xi, 270 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268). |
| Contents |
Which aisle for deathbed sheets? -- Can I have an armband, please? -- Suicide and the mental gymnastics of talking of kids -- The special art of crying on airplanes -- How to talk to grieving people -- Triggers (and the unfortunate loss of perfectly good guacamole) -- Pen in the wash -- Disney: death and murder for children -- Don't touch anything (and bring music) -- How to survive memorial services by eating all the cookies -- The emotional power of office supplies -- Busy hands and open hearts -- This is not what I ordered. -- Fight or surrender? -- Middle class cancer -- Touching two worlds -- Fire, water and the end of the world -- Pants optional -- Yoga with dad -- The last day -- Dead body in the living room -- The audacity of the sunrise -- Binge watching as a transitional object -- Don't rush -- The obituary that was never published -- Dave is going to die -- Angels in the zombie maze -- When lifelines become entangled -- The merry-go-round of horrors -- It could be me -- The autopsy in my inbox -- The chapter where I grapple with blame and responsibility -- 10,000 Answers but no reason why -- I'm sorry, I can't come with you. -- Death as light and feathers -- You'll never know him -- Metamorphosis -- Name the ghosts -- Heaven: the potluck in the sky? -- Fuck it. I'm joining the circus. -- I might be too messed up to go to work. -- Freud was right : death, sex and trauma in the body -- One year -- How to hug a shadow -- Parenting 101: you must get out of bed -- Friends whose parents are alive -- Public nudity for your soul -- Too strong for my own good -- Sneaky reemergence of belief -- We're all grieving -- I'm okay. |
| Summary |
"After losing her father to cancer and brother to suicide, a trauma psychologist shares new healing strategies for coping with extreme loss"-- Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Walling, Sherry.
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Walling, Sherry -- Family.
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Children of cancer patients -- Biography.
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Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- Biography.
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Clinical psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Grief.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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Children of cancer patients. (OCoLC)fst00855326
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Clinical psychologists. (OCoLC)fst00864400
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Grief. (OCoLC)fst00947883
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Suicide victims -- Family relationships.
(OCoLC)fst01137619
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781683649670 (paperback) |
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1683649672 (paperback) |
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9781683649687 (ebook) |
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