Resources
We have gathered together here some material we hope people will find useful.
Grief and how to deal with it — a no-nonsense approach to grief
This article describes a new approach to the process of grief. I wrote it originally for GPs but over the years it has become very popular among my clients, their family members and friends. Because it brings in a neuroscience perspective, it removes any confusion, mystery or shame about the process of grief.
I run half-day workshops based on this approach to help people understand their grief process better so that they can be more helpful to themselves and others.
Feel free to contact me if you have any feedback on this article that you would like to share with me.
(Now in a revised and improved version, 21 November 2009)
This article can be helpful to anyone working in an emotionally demanding area such as counsellors, nurses, teachers, doctors, youth workers, social workers, and social and political activists.
This article suggests strategies to help prevent burnout and secondary traumatisation.
This handout shows the dynamics of human emotions. It tries to explain why it is really quite irrational to not allow ourselves (or others) to feel our feelings fully.
Emotions are a vital source of information about ourselves and the world around us. To reject this information simply makes no sense. Throughout human history, emotions have been given bad publicity. They have been seen as unreliable, as a sign of weakness or as a nuisance. These attitudes must be challenged so that we can all be a lot healthier and freer to live life more peacefully and more fully.
