The First Year of Grief: Help for the Journey Grief Healing e-book and e-course by Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT (Audio Message from Course Instructor)

Course Overview
If you are mourning the loss of a loved one, please accept our heartfelt condolences during this sad and difficult time. And accept this invitation to enroll in this grief-healing course designed to help you move through grief actively over the coming weeks, months and yes, perhaps even years.

You may wonder if this awful pain you feel will ever end...
Loss creates an emotional wound, but it is an injury that can be healed. With help and understanding, the pain of loss can be transformed into a challenging new beginning, and your grief experience can become a healthy, positive and healing process.

You can choose to make the process of mourning a healing one...
Expressed grief can be worked with and released, but suppressed grief torments you in ways you cannot control. With the support of this course and its suggested resources, you can choose to make the process of mourning a healing one, which means moving through grief thoughtfully and deliberately.

On this healing journey...
You will learn to:


Every loss is a challenge to grow. Growth requires change, and change is often painful. When a loved one dies, everything changes, including you. Nothing is ever the same again. Loss creates an emotional wound, but it is an injury that can be healed. With help and understanding, the pain of loss can be transformed into a challenging new beginning, and your grief experience can become a healthy, positive and healing process.

Gift Order! If someone you know is grieving the loss of a loved one...
You can offer support and comfort over the coming year in the form of this grief-healing course. Each e-lesson (24 in all) will arrive in your friend's or loved one's inbox every other week to provide a unique form of ongoing support and guidance. Or, you can send the e-book so they have all the information at once.

Because it's so uneven and unpredictable, with no specific time frame, grief can leave one feeling disoriented and out of control, especially during the first year. The lessons in this e-course are designed to support, comfort and maneuver the mourning process.











Who is best served by this e-course?
Those...

• Wanting to better understand and help a friend or family member who is grieving. You can take the course together if you like (see details on our 2 for 1 offer – this applies to the e-course version only)...
  
  And those...
  
  
• Experiencing grief and despair caused by the loss of a loved one but wanting to know there is light at the end of the tunnel.
• Caught off guard by grief, feeling totally unprepared for it and needing guidance in dealing with it.
• Dreading and/or not knowing what to expect next, wondering whether reactions are normal, and reassurance that everything is as it should be.
• Seeking guidance, support and comfort for this most difficult journey.
• Seeking to understand the nature of grief and its potential impact on all aspects of one's life including: the physical, emotional, financial, social, and spiritual.

When armed with an understanding of grief and clear on what feelings and experiences to expect, one is better able to face what lies ahead.

Light a candle for your loved one.

Course Objectives

Both e-course and e-book benefit the bereaved by providing useful information and practical suggestions to help you better understand and cope with grief. Manage and get through what lies ahead by comprehending what is likely to be encountered along the way. Lessons offer hope that you can rebuild your life without your loved one in it and a wide array of tools to help you do so.

• Discover information on practical matters such as making difficult lifestyle adjustments (in finances, retirement, housing, etc.). Lesson 5 or page 22.
• Find support and guidance in dealing with different grieving patterns in a family, and ways to minimize stress. E.g., Learn how to nurture and comfort your mind, body and spirit through the grief process. Lesson 21 or page 80.
• Be guided through the emotional upheaval of grief, and gain a better understanding of the shock, disbelief, confusion, fear, anger, guilt, sorrow, loneliness, mystical experiences and spiritual reactions that are commonly experienced in loss.
• Learn to access all available resources for recovery. Identify and establish a support system. Lesson 18 or page 71.
• Consider ceremonies and suggestions of ways to memorialize a loved one – during the first year, at year's end and/or on holidays and special days. Lesson 22 or page 87.
• Explore how to cope with the upsets, setbacks and aftershocks that accompany normal grief. Lesson 22 or page 85.
• Evaluate progress from surviving toward transcending grief. Lesson 24 or page 94.
• Finally, find meaning in your loss, and continue to live productively in the years to come.

With today's purchase, receive this e-book also along with our other 14 bonus gifts...




24 Lessons
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Recommended E-Course Pace: bi-weekly receipt of lessons to your inbox

Note from Course Author: While it is tempting to set the e-course pace for daily or weekly delivery of lessons during the early stages of grief, the course will provide greater value with a bi-weekly delivery pace (i.e., every other week delivery).

The e-book format has been created to provide mourners with all the course content and suggested resources at once; allowing you to go right to those topics which are most relevant to you today.

Another Note from the author: Occasionally I am asked whether the content in my course is relevant only for those who are in the first year of their grief journey. In spite of the course title, the content is indeed applicable during the first year and beyond.


Special Course Features

• Online list of ways to nurture and comfort your mind, body and spirit as you go through the mourning process. Lesson 1 or page 5.
• Online and offline support group recommendations. Lesson 2 or page 13.
• Online list of movie recommendations and video/DVD rental suggestions to help you move through grief. Lesson 7 or page 33.
• Web site, article, book, discussion board recommendations.
• Online candle lighting ceremony and suggestions for ways to memorialize your loved one - during the first year, at year's end and/or around holidays.
• Free monthly newsletter with new articles or Q & A's by bereavement counselor Marty Tousley. (Check Yes, to newsletter question on the enrollment form)
• Printable checklist for reflection and evaluation of your progress and growth. Lesson 23 or page 91.

Begin your journey now! Have each lesson of this course delivered to your email inbox on the start date and at the frequency of your choosing by clicking the Order E-Course button now. Or, order the E-book and receive all course content immediately.




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This supportive course makes a thoughtful gift for a friend or loved one struggling to cope with the effects of loss and grief.


Course Fee: $34.95

Attn: E-course Enrollees Take advantage of our 2 for 1 Offer!

Take the e-course with a buddy. If you enroll now, you have the option to take this e-course with a friend for no additional course fee! The free course will be a gift from you to your friend. The 2 for 1 offer does not apply to the e-book version of the course.

Why e-learning?

Reportedly, e-learning results in a higher rate of information retention - with students demonstrating a 60% faster learning curve than those in instructor led classes. And, in contrast to a Web seminar, teleconference, or traditional class, our lesson delivery suits your lifestyle and schedule!


About the Instructor

Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, is a certified hospice bereavement counselor helping people find their way through grief following the death of a family member. She joined Hospice of the Valley in Phoenix, Arizona as a bereavement counselor in 1996, and now serves as moderator for its online Grief Healing Discussion Groups, www.hovforum.ipbhost.com. As a volunteer with the Halton-Peel Pet Loss Support Group in Ontario, Canada and the Pet Grief Support Service in Phoenix, AZ, she also works with bereaved animal lovers, both individually and in groups, and consults with veterinary clinics to foster greater understanding of pet loss among staff members, thereby building better helping relationships with grieving clients. A frequent contributor to healthcare journals, newsletters and magazines for the lay public, she has written several articles and book chapters in the professional nursing and medical literature, and has authored three books addressing various aspects of loss and grief. Her award-winning Internet Web site, www.GriefHealing.com, offers information, comfort and support to anyone who is anticipating or mourning the loss of a loved one, whether human or animal. Marty can be reached via e-mail at . She authored three Self-Healing Expressions e-courses including The First Year of Grief: Help for the Journey and A Different Grief: Coping with Pet Loss (with and without a child component).