Special Publications for the Funeral Professional
Care Giver

AfterLoss: A Recovery Companion
For Those Who Are Grieving
AfterLoss founder Barbara LesStrang shares the inspiring journey of her own struggle through the grieving process, which ultimately led to the creation of the AfterLoss Grief Recovery Program. In this book, twenty-two other individuals also share their trials and triumphs as they forged paths through their own loss to new levels of recovery and new lives. In each personal story, words of encouragement and practical suggestions point to recovery, showing how to work through grief and move toward a new life.
Pricing: $14.95

Grief is a Process,
Not an Event
Our most popular series consists of four volumes of answers to the questions most commonly asked during bereavement classes. Two volumes in this series are prepared especially for widows and widowers and two for persons who have lost other family members or friends. Each booklet contains the answers to approximately 30 questions which are most in the minds of the grieving survivors.
Pricing: $75/ 50 booklets
 

Widowed
This AfterLoss helpletter provides special support for widows and widowers by addressing loneliness, the vulnerability of widowhood and major adjustments. One section answers questions most frequently asked by widows and widowers in bereavement classes. This special issue provides sound guidance and genuine comfort to the widowed.
Pricing: 25 Issues /$87.50   

The Lament of Child Loss
The devastating loss of a child is addressed in this special helpletter which encourages bereaved parents as they struggle to survive one of the most traumatic of all losses. Along with articles and guidelines for understanding and coping with this loss are examples of how other parents have learned to deal with the trauma, information about support groups and answers to questions asked most frequently by surviving parents.
Pricing: 25 Issues / $87.50

Coping With Suicide
Specifically written for families of suicide, this HelpLetter provides assistance in dealing with the devastating shock brought on by this type of loss.  The issue contains first hand experiences as well as helpful answers to the most painful questions.  Readers will come away armed with some very practical coping skills
Pricing: 25 Issues/$87.50

The First Effects of Grief
and How to Deal with Them
A series of four special folders has been prepared by AfterLoss dealing with four primary issues faced by the bereaved. They are: The Effects of Grieving on Your Health, Loneliness Lives Here, Getting Past the Anger and Guilt, the Common Thread. The four folders are designed to be used individually or as a set.
Pricing: $50/100 folders
Set of all Folders with complimentary Lucite display rack $200/set.

"I Never Know
What To Say!"
One of the most difficult problems people encounter is that of not knowing what to say to a surviving relative or friend after the death of a loved one. In this beautiful eight panel booklet, AfterLoss offers new insights in what to say (and what not to say) to those who have experienced the recent death of a friend or loved one.
Pricing:  $75/100 Booklets

After My Loss
"Finally, something has been written about how I feel!" is a comment often made by bereaved who read this brilliant and sensitive exposition. From the book, AfterLoss, A Recovery Companion for Those Who Are Grieving, it summarizes areas in which the bereaved need help and understanding and specifies what family and friends can say and do to provide comfort.
Pricing:  $45/100 booklets

The AfterLoss Credo
The AfterLoss Credo has become known as the voice of the bereaved, gently explaining to others how bereaved people feel, what their needs are and what others should say and do to help them as they recover from their loss. This book- mark size item is a wonderful and inexpensive gift for the families you serve as well as for local support groups, hospices, churches, hospitals, retirement centers, senior centers and counselors. Many of our funeral and cemetery directors are ordering The AfterLoss Credo personalized with their logo, address and phone number.
Pricing: $40/100 copies

Sorrow of AIDS
In this sensitive 24-page booklet, Dr. Kennedy-Reeves deals with the traumatic problems faced by the survivors of AIDS-related death by sharing experiences of families who have suffered this trauma. Also included is a letter written to the mother of an AIDS victim, which provides insight, courage and wisdom for all who survive this extremely difficult type of loss.
Pricing: $50/ 25 booklets

Bye Bye...
I Love You
Author, Kathy Dawson, writes from her own personal pain of losing her father and grandfather at the age of six. The book contains activities for children designed with the Multiple Intelligence Theory in mind. The MI theory was developed at Harvard where Ms. Dawson studied with the world renowned professor Dr. Howard Gardner.  It allows for each individual child to cope with loss in a different way.
Pricing: $175/50 booklets

The Losin' Blues
In her second book, the author Kathy Dawson, addresses the "next" group of children in dealing with loss.  Rather than constrict the target audience to a specific age bracket, she has designed the activities for those adolescents who are developmentally advanced from those to which bye Bye...I Love you was written.  The book also encompasses the Multiple Intelligence Theory.
Pricing: $175/50 Booklets