Grieving.
How do you do that?
An eBook Full of Tips and Tools for Your Grieving Process
Packed with tools and tips
Little theory and many tools and tips that you can apply immediately.
Read per chapter
Only tackle the chapter you need right now.
Increase your resilience
Skills that you can use well in the rest of your life.
How Do I Grieve Well?
You’ve lost someone dear to you and are in deep grief. You’re filled with questions about your grieving process. How do you navigate through this as effectively as possible? Because you want to regain control over yourself, your emotions, and your daily life.
- You're grappling with questions like:
- How do I grieve well? Am I doing it right?
- Is it normal for me to...?
- What should I do or not do?
- Because I only get one chance at this!
Grief Brings Uncertainty
Grief and the grieving process are something you’ve never experienced before. And something you haven’t been taught. Doubts and uncertainty during your grieving process are understandable yet unnecessary.
How do you deal with grief?
Many books have been written about what grief is. But then the question often remained: And now what? What should I do now to navigate the grieving process well?
In ‘Grief Skills,’ I’ve focused on the specific challenges you may encounter when dealing with loss. This book goes beyond just understanding grief.
You can now stop trying to figure everything out on your own, doubting, and feeling uncertain.
You’ll be provided with practical skills, tips, and tools to endure the grieving period as effectively as possible.
Grief Skills: Packed with tips and tools
ready to be applied immediately
- The grief CHAOS model provides you with stability. You'll see light at the end of the tunnel again.
- Tips on how to deal with administrative matters.
- Know when to seek help.
- Acceptance, resignation, and acceptance aren't easy, but they are possible.
- Learn to cope with all the changes within yourself and in your life.
- Know what to do when emotions run high or not at all.
- Communicate clearly and effectively with your environment and your employer.
- Examine which thoughts and beliefs help you.
- Tips for coping with significant days.
- Take control of your life again. Let go of what doesn't belong to you. Become the master of your schedule again.
- Build a new life. Rediscover satisfaction and meaning alongside your grief, pain, and sadness.
- Strengthen your self-confidence and resilience.
- And much, much more.
What Do Grief Experts Say?
Widow and Mother Who Has Lost a Child
As a widow, a mother who has lost a child, a fellow sufferer, coach, trainer, and author of “Survival Guide for Widows,” I know how painful, difficult, and complex the grieving process is and the full impact that loss has on every aspect of our lives.
In the book ‘Grief Skills,’ I help you how to deal with the specific challenges you encounter when dealing with loss. With your grieving process.
This book gives you the skills you’ve partly already learned and partly haven’t learned yet on how to deal with your loss. Practical tools and tips that you can apply immediately.
Everything you learn now will also be of great help to you for the rest of your life. Because we will all continue to experience both big and small setbacks.
After reading ‘Grief Skills,’ you’ll know how to face these challenges with more confidence and resilience.
You can give your life more shine again and enjoy it more. So that the rest of your life is still worth it.
What Do Grief Experts Say?
You're faced with an enormous life event. An occurrence in your life for which you're probably not prepared.
There are certain skills you can apply that are helpful and supportive to the grieving process and the impact of loss on you as an individual and your daily life.
It makes a big difference if you master those skills. These are skills that come in handy anywhere and anytime, even in your future life.
However, you may not have learned these skills from your upbringing, your education, and/or your working life. Or you may already possess these skills, but they have temporarily taken a back seat.
With this book, you'll refresh or learn those skills that help you cope with the broad impact of loss in your life.
Many books have been written about grief and the grieving process. Beautiful books about experiences with loss or the background and theory of grief.
What is grief? What does grief do? Why does grief never go away?
What I then miss is: And what NOW? What can I do NOW in this situation? What should I do NOW or not do?
From that perspective, the book Grief Skills was born. Concrete tips and tools that you can apply immediately. Certain skills that help you during your grieving process AND the rest of your life.
During the grieving process, you're not only dealing with emotions of pain, loss, and sadness. The impact of loss is much more than that. It affects your daily life and how you as a person navigate life.
You can think of:
- Planning and organizing
- Logical thinking
- Dealing with emotions, including mindfulness
- Thoughts and beliefs
- Self-confidence
- Communication
- Healthy lifestyle
- Seeking contact with fellow sufferers
- And much more
If you've read the book Grief Skills, then you know:
- How to deal with various difficult situations.
- How to regain more control and peace for yourself and your daily life.
- How to look to your future with more confidence in yourself.
Because grieving, living on, and enjoying life again exist alongside each other.
The book Grief Skills is written for the loss of a loved one. This could be your father, sister, grandmother, friend, or child. It's very practical. It teaches you the skills you need to cope with the grieving process as effectively as possible. You can flip through the book chapter by chapter and it provides many concrete tips and tools that you can apply immediately. The book Survival Guide for Widows:
- Primarily focuses on the loss of a partner and how it impacts your daily life.
- Dedicates a whole chapter to the most common administrative matters and where to find the necessary information.
- Contains many recognizable examples and experiences from fellow sufferers.
- Provides more knowledge about grief and the grieving process. Understanding this often brings more peace of mind.
- Also offers tips on how to handle certain situations.
The book Grief Skills is primarily practical. It's a great complement to the book Survival Guide for Widows. "Survivalguide for Widows" is now only available in Dutch.
Both books are structured according to the Grief CHAOS model.
Before I wrote Survival Guide for Widows, I conducted research among widows. It became apparent that there was a huge need for a framework in the form of a step-by-step plan. Although the grieving process doesn't necessarily follow a fixed pattern and you may fluctuate in emotions and experiences, when you really zoom out, many people do discover a similar process.
Namely:
- an initial survival period, during which you have to Confront the situation and potentially seek Help,
- learning to accept, resign, and come to Acceptance that this is now your life and you have to deal with it,
- and ultimately being able to think about your future again and how you want to Build the rest of your life and take Control of it yourself.
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