100 tips first year von bennett marcus (2 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nobody tells you that the paperwork arrives while you are still unable to finish a sentence. Or that the second year can be harder than the first.There are a great many books about grief and remarkably few about Tuesday afternoon - the bank that will not speak to you, the wardrobe you cannot open, the friends who have gone quiet, and the birthday coming up that you have no idea what to do with.One hundred practical tips, each a page or two, each ending with one thing you can do today. Written for the person actually in it, not about grief in general.Inside- The first weeks - the short list of what genuinely has to happen now, and permission to ignore everything else- The paperwork - certificates, accounts, pensions and the estate, in the order it actually arrives- Money - why every large decision should wait a year, what you may be entitled to, and how to handle the people who appear selling things- Grief itself - why there are no stages, why relief and anger are normal, and how to tell ordinary unbearable from the kind that needs help- Staying well - the real health risk of the first year, and the handful of habits that protect against it- The empty house - their belongings, at your pace, and what to say to relatives who arrive with bin bags- Other people - friends who disappear, appalling things said kindly, and how to answer how are you a hundred times- The days that ambush you - anniversaries, birthdays and the first Christmas, planned rather than endured- The longer view - the second year, new relationships, family reactions, and the guilt of being happy againWritten for the week you are actually inEvery tip ends with one small action, because in the first year the difficulty is rarely understanding what to do. It is being able to begin.Set in large, clear type. Practical throughout, with a plain word about when grief needs professional help and where to find it.There is no schedule you are behind on, and no point at which you were supposed to be over it.…