When someone we love suddenly dies, we are stunned. We had no preparation and no time to gradually absorb the reality that our world was about to change dramatically. Because this type of loss is so disruptive, recovery almost always is complicated. This video is for those who have suffered a sudden loss through a medical disruption, suicide, homicide, accident, military death, or an unexplained death. Through expert advice and personal testimony, this video will offer support and encouragement for rebuilding your life after such a devastating loss.
Grieving the Sudden Death of a Loved One provides a full hour of support, wisdom, and counsel from experts of many backgrounds including Earl A. Grollman, the "Hero of The Heartland" for his work with the families and volunteers of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Topics include:
- The impact of a sudden death
- The pain of reality
- Yielding to the season of grief
- Everyone grieves in their own way
- How children grieve
- Our environment influences how we grieve
- Circumstances affect grief
- Working through grief
- Grief can affect us physically
- How to take care of yourself
Experts include:
- Dr. Earl A. Grollman - rabbi, certified death educator and couselor, author of Talking about Death: A Dialogue between Parent and Child
- Dr. Heidi Horsley - psychologist, co-founder and executive director of the Open to Hope Foundation
- Gregory Floyd - leader of a Catholic covenant community, author of A Grief Unveiled: One Father’s Journey through the Death of a Child
| Format: | DVD |
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| Product code: | PP12416 |
| Dimensions: | 5½" x 7½" |
| Publisher: |
Paraclete Press
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| ISBN: | 9781612612416 |
| 1-2 copies | $13.20 each |
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| 3-9 copies | $12.60 each |
| 10-49 copies | $12.00 each |
| 50-99 copies | $11.70 each |
| 100+ copies | $11.25 each |
Praise
Grieving the Sudden Death of a Loved One…offers well-grounded advice to those who are walking through this valley of deepest darkness. The impact of sudden death is overwhelming, everything is too intense, it is black and white, it is real/unreal at the same moment. Grief takes time; we are well served to yield to the fact that there are no strict time-frames for the seasons of the broken-hearted. People cannot just move on because others want them to do so; they move on when they can, when they are ready. Even so, they will always grieve their loss. The best thing you can do as someone visiting the grieving is to listen; recognize that if the person need to talk, let them to do. You do not need to come up with soothing answers, there are no words that can give meaning to the inexplicable. Having personally experienced the death of a child (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) forty years ago I can resonate with these observations. Grief can affect us physically; it takes great effort to work through grief; grief is individual, there is no ‘one size fits all’ answers to grief and grieving. The DVD addresses how oftentimes grievers lash out at God. That is natural. Take your anger to God, speak to God. As one of the presenters explains, ‘God is not upset with our upset-ness, and God is not upset with our anger.’ Grieving the Sudden Death of a Loved One…can be a valuable tool…its overall message is sensible and it is sensitively presented.
