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The Web address of this article is http://sfhelp.org/grief/links3.htm

        This is one of a series of articles in Lesson 3 in the Break the Cycle! self-study course. The lesson aims to educate readers on healthy grieving basics so they can (a) build a pro-grief family and (b) com-plete any unfinished mourning. The alternative is enduring significant health and relationship stresses without knowing how to reduce them. 

        Typical survivors of low-nurturance childhoods (Grown Wounded Children - GWCs) never learned grieving basics, and risk psychological, physical, and relationship problems from incomplete mourning. Lesson 3  requires major progress on Lesson 1 - reducing psychological wounds.

        Adults and kids in typical troubled-(low-nurturance) biofamilies, divorcing families, and stepfami-lies are at special risk of incomplete grief. Most adults - including many human-service professionals - don't know this, what it means, or what to do about it.

Links to Lesson-3 Resources

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Background - this diagram of the toxic [wounds + unawareness] cycle

Background - five widespread marital and family hazards

Research Summary: "Beyond Depression: When Grief Doesn't Go Away"

5-1)  Lesson 3 Study guide

5-2)  Questions and answers about "good grief" (2 pages)

5-3)  Quiz - what do you know about bonding, losses, and healthy grief?

5-4)  Basics: what Is good (healthy) grief?  Seven requisites

5-5)  The three levels of healthy grief, and the phases of each level

5-6)  Get inner and outer permissions to grieve well

5-7)  Symptoms of incomplete mourning

5-8)  How to forge a "pro-grief" family

5-9)  Worksheet: learn your values about losses and grieving

5-10)  Worksheet: a tangible-loss inventory

5-11)  Worksheet: an intangible-loss inventory

Review  - Perspective on personal and family anger polices

5-12)  A sample healthy family grieving policy

5-13)  Is it depression or normal grieving?

5-14)  Options for freeing blocked grief in yourself and others (3 pages)

Research Summary "Name that Feeling: You'll feel Better"

Review: perspective on special grief supports (part of Lesson 4)

• Books on grieving

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Updated September 01, 2010