Foreword |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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PART I This Is All Just as Crazy as You Think It Is |
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Chapter 1 The Reality of Loss |
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Chapter 2 The Second Half of the Sentence: Why Words of Comfort Feel So Bad |
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Chapter 3 It's Not You, It's Us: Our Models of Grief Are Broken |
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Chapter 4 Emotional Illiteracy and the Culture of Blame |
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Chapter 5 The New Model of Grief |
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PART II What to Do with Your Grief |
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Chapter 6 Living in the Reality of Loss |
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Chapter 7 You Can't Solve Grief, but You Don't Have to Suffer |
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Chapter 8 How (and Why) to Stay Alive |
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Chapter 9 What Happened to My Mind? Dealing with Grief's Physical Side Effects |
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Chapter 10 Grief and Anxiety: Calming Your Mind When Logic Doesn't Work |
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Chapter 11 What Does Art Have to Do with Anything? |
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Chapter 12 Find Your Own Image of "Recovery" |
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PART III When Friends and Family Don't Know What to Do |
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Chapter 13 Should You Educate or Ignore Them? |
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Chapter 14 Rallying Your Support Team: Helping Them Help You |
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Chapter 15 The Tribe of After: Companionship, True Hope, and the Way Forward |
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Chapter 16 Love Is the Only Thing That Lasts |
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Appendix How to Help a Grieving Friend |
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Notes |
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Resources |
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About the Author |
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