It's ok that you're not ok Meeting grief and loss in a culture that doesn't understand
Book - 2017
"In It's OK That You're Not OK, Megan Devine offers a profound new approach to both the experience of grief and the way we try to help others who have endured tragedy"--Amazon.com.
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Boulder, CO :
Sounds True
2017.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xix, 249 pages ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781622039074
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. This Is All Just as Crazy as You Think It Is
- Chapter 1. The Reality of Loss
- Chapter 2. The Second Half of the Sentence: Why Words of Comfort Feel So Bad
- Chapter 3. It's Not You, it's Us: Our Models of Grief Are Broken
- Chapter 4. Emotional Illiteracy and the Culture of Blame
- Chapter 5. The New Model of Grief
- Part II. What to Do with Your Grief
- Chapter 6. Living in the Reality of Loss
- Chapter 7. You Can't Solve Grief, but You Don't Have to Suffer
- Chapter 8. How (and Why) to Stay Alive
- Chapter 9. What Happened to My Mind? Dealing with Grief's Physical Side Effects
- Chapter 10. Grief and Anxiety: Calming Your Mind When Logic Doesn't Work
- Chapter 11. What Does Art Have to Do with Anything?
- Chapter 12. Find Your Own Image of "Recovery"
- Part III. When Friends and Family Don't Know What to Do
- Chapter 13. Should You Educate or Ignore Them?
- Chapter 14. Rallying Your Support Team: Helping Them Help You
- Part IV. The Way Forward
- Chapter 15. The Tribe of After: Companionship, True Hope, and the Way Forward
- Chapter 16. Love Is the Only Thing That Lasts
- Appendix: How to Help a Grieving Friend
- Notes
- Resources
- About the Author