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Victoria Hospice Bereavement Information Brochures and Pamphlets

To order a packaged set containing one original copy of each of these bereavement brochures, or an e-mailed file suitable for formatting and printing with your own Hospice logo and contact info, complete this order form.

The Victoria Hospice brochure "Ten Things To Know About Grief" is also available in several languages through      BC Bereavement Helpline's website.

Grief:... A Personal Journey
Grief is the natural variety of responses that you experience when someone important to you dies. It affects you in many ways: socially, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. This brochure looks at the grief journey and common responses along the way.

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Dealing With Grief: A Guide to Understanding Your Reactions
When someone important to you dies, you grieve. This brochure covers a wide range of responses that may occur over an extended period of time.

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Ten Things to Know About Grief
When you are grieving, it helps to know what to expect. Although grief is unique for each person, there are some common themes that have been identified in this helpful brochure.

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Grief: Coping with Challenges
The death of someone important to you brings many changes in your life. As you are adjusting and responding to these changes, there are challenges you will have to face. This brochure offers some explanations and practical suggestions about handling financial affairs, decision-making, dealing with personal effects, dreams, memories and looking after your own health.

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Helping Children Grieve: What to Expect and Things to Remember
If children are old enough to love, then they are old enough to grieve. This brochure helps adults anticipate and understand the changing needs of children and teens when a death has occurred in the family.

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Children and Grief: Information for Parents and Caregivers
Children and teens grieve in ways that reflect their development understanding, previous experience with loss and the support and information available to them. This brochure contains age-appropriate information that will help parents and others support them. Information addresses responses when a family member is very ill and when someone has died.

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Understanding Your Emotions
When someone close to you dies, you may experience powerful and possibly unfamiliar emotions. These emotions are part of the natural process of grief. This brochure looks at sorrow, hopelessness, despair, guilt, anger, fear and anxiety. It offers helpful strategies for coping, and looks at the positive side of each emotion to balance its challenging aspects.

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Difficult Grief and Multiple Losses
Grief is never an easy journey. There may be times when you feel unable to cope or are immobilized by grief. You may feel overwhelmed by the amount of grief you experience in response to one or more deaths. This is what is meant by difficult grief. This brochure explores the phases of difficult grief, and offers helpful information about the experience of multiple losses.

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Suicide Grief
Grief after suicide may feel quite different than the grief felt after other kinds of losses. Usually the death of someone from suicide has a much more intense and long lasting impact. The struggle with complex social, emotional and cultural issues that can make such grief overwhelming and isolating are addressed in this brochure.

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Things to Remember When Supporting a Grieving Person
Grief is a natural and necessary process that helps a bereaved person adjust to life without the person who has died. This brochure includes suggestions for friends and family about how to be helpful to a bereaved person.

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