Joy Beyond Grief

Janice Thompson

Description

This book offers a modern perspective on grief and how this can help you with your own grieving experience. It offers practical and gentle tools and techniques to help you navigate your own unique journey of loss.
This book has been written from a place of passion and compassion for helping those grieving. The immense pain of loss can be so debilitating and where to turn for help can be such a challenge. The aim of this book is to offer you a guiding hand through your own individual grieving experience. Step by step you will be offered some new perspectives on your feelings and thoughts and how your loss may be affecting you on physical, psychological, spiritual, and behavioural levels. Each chapter offers some practical tools and techniques to help you navigate your way through your grief, helping you from the rawness of loss to a place of peaceful integration – and beyond if you wish. This book offers a new and modern perspective of how to help yourself holistically.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Santé mentale & traumatisme
• Santé mentale
• Santé mentale
• Death
• Grief
• Self-help
• Bereavement

Informations

• Publié par: Balboa Press
• Date de parution: 13 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798765237175
• Langue: English

Extrait

JOY BEYOND GRIEF

A new understanding of grief with gentle and practical exercises to help you.





Janice Thompson








Copyright © 2022 Janice Thompson.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.



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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well- being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.
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Interior Image Credit: Carole Chevalier



ISBN: 979-8-7652-3716-8 (sc)
ISBN: 979-8-7652-3718-2 (hc)
ISBN: 979-8-7652-3717-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022922401

Balboa Press rev. date: 03/10/2023



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Firstly, I would like to thank my partner Ian. He was a source of constant support and encouragement throughout the writing of this book.
I offer my gratitude to Karl Dawson, the developer of Matrix Reimprinting, and Richard Flook, the creator of Advanced Clearing Energetics – two true mentors and visionaries. If it hadn’t been for their help during my own grief and subsequent training from them in their distinct techniques, this book would not even exist. And neither might I, come to that.
I would very much like to give a huge thanks to my editor Lois Rose for her professionalism during the creation of this book. Her patience and kindness towards my work was amazing and her heart-lifting communications were inspiring. And I would also like to offer my full appreciation to Carole Chevalier for the wonderful illustrations throughout this book.
I offer heartfelt thanks to the many fellow therapists that I have worked with over the years; they are far too many to mention here, but their knowledge, kindness, and collaborations have proved invaluable to me personally and professionally. Specific thanks go: To Erika Brodnock whose kind heart, wisdom, and beautiful persistence enabled me to finish this book; To Penny Croal, an extremely talented trainer and good friend, for her passion and promotion of my work and always believing in me; To Wendy Lyford, a supportive friend and source of regular encouragement. And finally, to Carol and Nick Cumber for accepting me with open arms into their community and for their pure loveliness.



FOREWORD
I first met Janice when she attended one of my training courses back in 2007. Within a short space of time I was working with her as she was crying and trying to explain what the problem was. She was extremely upset as she explained her situation. That was some fifteen years ago now and I have followed her on her journey as a friend and mentor from the pain of bereavement to the joyful place she is now with a wonderful partner, two healthy, happy daughters and a successful business.
Janice’s story is explained in this book. Speaking from the heart, she openly discusses her own bereavements and her journey to get help and heal herself. However, it is not just a reflection of one person’s journey; rather it is a book full of passion about helping those in pain. After several years of research, training, and working with many bereaved clients, she now wishes to share her knowledge and experience with as many people as possible.
As an EFT Master and the creator of Matrix Reimprinting, I travel extensively around the world teaching and running trainings. I meet countless people who are looking for new ways to help themselves with physical and emotional problems. Janice’s specialism of working with loss has enabled her to help hundreds of people with both the psychological and physical issues associated with grief.
What Janice has done in Joy Beyond Grief is to help us to take a new look at loss – a twenty-first century look at grief. Janice has created a step-by-step new and innovative approach to helping anyone who has lost a loved one. She explains how the mind and body deal with grief and what you can do about it. The book is full of practical tools to help you help yourself, including Matrix Reimprinting – a remarkable tool for transforming loss.
Death and loss have become almost taboo subjects in the Western world, leaving many bereaved individuals with nowhere to turn. In helping to change this, it has been my privilege to invite Janice to be one of the speakers at my supervision days on several occasions. She has since gone on to speak at many conferences and gatherings with the aim of bringing this subject into the light and helping grievers with their pain.
What Janice has captured within the pages of this book is a gentle space for grievers to gain support and advice. This book offers hope and shows you how you can help yourself through loss. If you are recently bereaved or have been struggling for years over the loss of a loved one, I recommend you read this book and follow the advice given to help you find your way to a more peaceful, joyful life. This book is a journey from cover to cover.
Karl Dawson
Author of:
Matrix Reimprinting using EFT (co-author Sasha Allenby)
Transform Your Beliefs, Transform Your Life (co-author Kate Marillat)



DEDICATION
This book is dedicated
To my brother Trevor, and my daughters Francesca and Jasmin, with whom I have shared the pain of loss,
To all those beautiful souls no longer with us in physical form,
and
To you the reader, who has experienced loss and are open enough and brave enough to seek a new way to do grief.



CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
Joy Beyond Grief – Self-Love Exercise
Chapter 2
FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS: IGNORE OR EMBRACE?
Joy Beyond Grief – Self-Love Exercises
Chapter 3
THE SHOCK OF LOSS
Joy Beyond Grief – Self-Love Exercises
Chapter 4
PAIN, SUFFERING, AND LETTING GO
Joy Beyond Grief – Self-Love Exercises
Chapter 5
EVERYTHING IS ENERGY
Joy Beyond Grief – Self-Love Exercises
Chapter 6
TIME WILL NOT HEAL, BUT TAPPING WILL
Joy Beyond Grief – Self-Love Exercise
Chapter 7
RESOLVING THE UNRESOLVABLE
Joy Beyond Grief – Self-Love Exercises
Chapter 8
BELIEFS, SPIRITUALITY, AND THE SOUL
Joy Beyond Grief – Self-Love Exercise
Chapter 9
GRIEF AND PHYSICAL WELLBEING
Joy Beyond Grief – Self-Love Exercise
Chapter 10
TRANSGENERATIONAL GRIEF AND LIFE PATTERNS
Joy Beyond Grief – Self-Love Exercise
Chapter 11
THE GIFT OF GRIEF
Joy Beyond Grief – Self-Love Exercise
Chapter 12
THE TURNING POINT IN TRANSFORMATION TO JOY



INTRODUCTION
‘People who have been in the place of sadness
where you are now, will be there for you.’
Susan Squellati Florence
In the darkest days of grief, it can feel like you will never ever get over your loss, let alone have a life again. Your heart is aching so much. The pain is so immense, and you can’t focus on anything. You probably do not believe that your emotional hell could ever be transformed into a life full of new meaning, love, and depth. I certainly didn’t. My journey may reflect similarities to yours; it was tough, painful, and at some points meaningless. After the initial shock, I tried so many ways to help myself, but I seemed to go off on many unhelpful tangents. Finally, I found a way through that changed everything. A gentle, comforting, empowering way through and that is what this book is all about.
My aim is to help you so you won’t have to experience any of those unhelpful tangents, which only hindered my grieving process. If you are experiencing your own dark days, feelings of being in a dense fog, numbness, deep sorrow, heartache or any other way the emotional hell of loss is expressing itself, then this is the book for you. It is a hand for you to hold, a guiding light through the seemingly unbearable days and a companion through your own unique grief. I am one of those people mentioned in the quote above, but having experienced my own sadness of loss I am now in a position to be there for you in the form of this book.
May I welcome you to Joy Beyond Grief . I wish I could be introducing myself to you under better circumstances than the loss of a loved one. Firstly, I would like to offer my deepest and most sincere condolences. I would also like to reach out and offer some help for as long as you need during this time of excruciating pain. The pain of loss is immeasurable and although everybody’s pain is different, I can walk with you along your own path, offering guida