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Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
Written by Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD
Narrated by Qarie Marshall
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Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss.
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Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD
Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD, serves as director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition. He writes the "Children and Grief" column for Bereavement Magazine and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, and Today. He is the author of Healing Your Grieving Heart, Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart, and Understanding Grief. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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