Mindfulness and Grief: With Guided Meditations to Calm Your Mind and Restore Your Spirit

Mindfulness & Grief is an eight-week guide using meditation, yoga, journaling and expressive arts, plus inspirational stories, to help you reduce suffering and emerge transformed on the other side of loss. This book will help you:
Ease your physical symptoms of grief
Calm your mind and help you regulate difficult emotions
Improve your present moment awareness
Increase compassion toward yourself and others
Help you make meaning from your loss
Develop your new self-narrative for moving forward
Grief is a natural reaction to loss, but if you are like most people, grief can leave you feeling emotionally mentally and physically exhausted. Fortunately the ancient practice of mindfulness can help to reduce your suffering and be your guiding light on the path through tough times. The good news is you don't need to have any previous meditation or yoga experience to benefit from this book. All you need is a desire to reduce your own pain.
Mindfulness and Grief will help you grieve authentically - and at the same time teach you skills that will help you ease the physical symptoms of loss and reduce your suffering. Mindfulness & Grief will help you begin the process of healing. Learn how to cope with grief, and embark on your unique healing journey that may lead to unimaginable posttraumatic growth.
Based on the 8-Week Mindfulness & Grief program developed by Heather Stang, this book features inspirational stories and over 35 mindfulness-based exercises including meditation, yoga, journaling and instructions for a personal day-long retreat. Learn how the present moment can be a safe haven for healing the pain of grief and loss.