Description
📖 Chapter Overview
Chapter One – Introduction to the Kübler-Ross Model + Our Approach
Understand the well-known Five Stages of Grief model and how it fits into the broader landscape of grief. We explore why it was originally developed, how it has been widely used, and why grief is far more complex than a single framework.
Chapter Two – 5 Other Models of Grief: Exploring Different Perspectives
Grief is deeply personal, and no single model explains it for everyone. This chapter introduces alternative perspectives, including the Dual Process Model, The Jar Model, The Tasks of Mourning, and Attachment Theory, helping you see your grief through different lenses.
Chapter Three – Understanding My Grief: Activities to Explore Your Journey
Through reflective exercises and guided questions, this chapter helps you explore your own unique grief experience. Gain insight into your emotions, challenge unhelpful thoughts, and find ways to navigate feelings of loss.
Chapter Four – Tools for Coping with Grief: Strategies, Self-Care + Journaling
This section is full of practical tools for managing grief, including daily self-care checklists, positive affirmations, journaling prompts, and exercises to help you move forward at your own pace.
✍️ Activities Inside the Workbook
- Which stages feel most familiar to you right now?
- Five Stages of Grief – Myth vs. Fact
- Understanding the Dual Process Model of Grief
- The Jar Model – How Life Can Grow Around Grief
- The Tasks of Mourning – Steps for Processing Loss
- Attachment Theory + Grief – How Our Bonds Shape Loss
- Exploring Emotions connected to the five stages of grief
- Reframing Thoughts of guilt and regret in grief
- Reflecting on your Emotions + self-awareness exercises
- Drawing Exercise: Mapping Your Grief Journey
- Managing the Emotions that come with grief
- Writing A Letter to Your Loved One
- Writing A Letter About Your Loved One
- Exploring Your Identity After Loss
- You + The Future – Finding Meaning Moving Forward
- Positive Affirmations in grief
- Gratitude Activities – Simple ways to practice gratitude
- 5-Minute Journal – Small daily steps
- Daily Self-Care Checklist – Simple habits for wellbeing
- Healing Goals Journal – Setting intentions for the future
🎧 Free Bonus: Guided Meditation Pack
This meditation pack gently supports you through grief, offering a series of mindful reflections to integrate into daily life.
Tracks Include:
- Making Space for Noticing – Pause and honour your emotions.
- Noticing Fears & Bringing Compassion – Recognise fears and meet them with kindness.
- Expanding Space for Feelings of Grief – Allow grief to be fully felt.
- Building Connection with Your Loved One – Strengthen your bond in memory.
- Self-Compassion & Self-Care in Grief – Learn to nurture yourself.
- Gratitude Alongside Grief – Find appreciation while holding sorrow.
- Visualisation for Future Healing – Imagine hope and growth after loss.
- Bonus: Grief Comes in Waves – A calming meditation to help you ride the emotional tides.
“This toolkit of resources has been thoughtfully collated to support the most pressing needs for people who are grieving. There’s something for everyone with these evidence-based strategies that have been designed with The Loss Foundation’s ethos in mind. The toolkit is a collection of the most relevant psychologically informed resources for bereavement, so I would highly recommend other psychologists and therapists make use of these too.”
– Dr Emily Shaw, Clinical Psychologist
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