Grieving the Sudden Death of a Loved One (2012) - DVD

There is no adequate preparation for dealing with the sudden death of a loved one. This video will take you through seventeen segments from The impact of a sudden death to The pain of reality to Yielding to the season of grief. You will hear expert advice about how Everyone grieves in their own way, How children grieve, Our environment influences how we grieve, and the ways that Circumstances can affect grief. You will learn to Work through grief, how Grief can affect us physically, How to take care of yourself, and the dangers of Avoiding grief.

There are what experts call Grief bursts and Holidays and special days when the feelings will be most intense. Above all, remember that Grief has no time frame, and can last a lifetime. It is okay--in fact, it is healthy to ask serious questions, such as Where is God? And, if you are attempting to care for someone else who is grieving, you need to understand How to be with someone who is grieving. Healing will come. Give it time. With this resource you will discover how to slowly Move toward acceptance.

Experts featured on this video:

• Dr. Earl A. Grollman - rabbi, certified death educator and counselor, 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

Review Quotes:
"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 isoverwhelming, 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." -- Rabbi David J. Zucker, PhD, BCC. (Ret.)North West Surrey Synagogue, Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom

Product Code: 1612612415   EAN: 9781612612416