Bereavement Workbook

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If your life has been split into the time before and the time after, and the world has somehow kept moving while yours stopped, and the people around you have started saying things they think are helpful and you have started saying things you think are reassuring just so they will stop — this workbook was written for you. You are not failing at grief. You are doing the hardest thing a human being is asked to do.

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BEREAVEMENT & GRIEF WORKBOOK | 288 Pages

CBT, ACT & CFT Evidence-Based Programme

Built on the Dual Process Model and Continuing Bonds

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Grief is not a problem to solve. It is not a series of stages to move through in the right order. It is not something you "get over," "process out," or finish. It is the lifelong continuation of a love that no longer has anywhere to go — and the slow, uneven work of building a life that can hold both that love and what comes next.

This workbook does not promise to take the pain away. It will not. What it offers is a structured, clinically informed way to understand what you are experiencing, to move through it without trying to skip it, and to begin building a life that has room for the loss without being defined by it.

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WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO BY THE END

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✦ Understand what grief actually is — the Dual Process Model, Continuing Bonds, and why your experience does not follow the "stages" you may have been told to expect

✦ Recognise the difference between grief itself and the secondary suffering that comes from judging yourself for grieving "wrong"

✦ Move between active grieving and rebuilding life without forcing either — and without guilt when you find moments of relief

✦ Address the specific guilt, regret, and "if only" thoughts that grief almost always produces

✦ Navigate the social side of grief — the friends who disappeared, the well-meaning advice that landed badly, the loneliness inside relationships that still exist

✦ Develop ways to maintain a meaningful continuing connection with the person you lost

✦ Reduce the shame and self-criticism that come with "still" being in grief weeks, months, or years on

✦ Begin to build a life that has room for both your loss and a future — not by leaving the love behind, but by making space for it differently

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THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES INCLUDED

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✦ Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for grief — for the cognitive patterns, stuck thoughts, and avoidance behaviours that quietly prolong suffering

✦ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) — for moving toward what matters while pain is present, which is the only honest approach to grief

✦ Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) — for the shame, self-criticism, and "I should be coping better than this by now" layer that most grief content completely ignores

✦ The Dual Process Model of Grief (Stroebe & Schut) — the modern clinical framework that replaces linear stages with the realistic oscillation between loss-focused work and restoration-focused life

✦ Continuing Bonds theory — the evidence-based recognition that we do not "let go" of those we have lost; we restructure the relationship into one we can carry

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WHO THIS WORKBOOK IS FOR

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✔ People in the early weeks, months, or years of grief — there is no expiry date on when this work is useful

✔ Those grieving the death of a partner, parent, child, sibling, friend, or someone the wider world did not always recognise as significant

✔ Anyone whose grief is "complicated" — by sudden death, suicide loss, traumatic circumstances, anticipatory grief, or a difficult or unresolved relationship with the person who died

✔ People navigating "secondary losses" — the version of their life, identity, or future that ended alongside the person they lost

✔ Those whose grief has not followed the timeline anyone else expected, and who have started to wonder if there is something wrong with them

✔ People on NHS or private waiting lists for bereavement counselling — UK waits often run six to eighteen months

✔ Individuals between counselling sessions wanting structured psychological work in the meantime

✔ Therapists, counsellors, and bereavement practitioners seeking a clinically grounded client resource

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ABOUT THIS RESOURCE

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Created by Dr Jo Stuart, Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years of experience supporting individuals through bereavement, trauma, anxiety, and psychological overload — and Fleur Lisa Dumonbreville, CEO and senior operational leader of one of the UK's leading Facility Services.

This is not a self-help book of platitudes about "healing" or "letting go." It is a structured, 288-page clinical bereavement programme in digital workbook form — built on the Dual Process Model, Continuing Bonds theory, and decades of evidence-based grief work — made accessible without the waiting list and without the four-figure cost.

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PRODUCT DETAILS

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✦ Format: PDF (fillable and printable)

✦ Pages: 288

✦ Instant download — available immediately after purchase

✦ Compatible with Adobe Acrobat, Mac Preview, and most PDF readers

✦ Can be used digitally or printed at home

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PLEASE NOTE

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This workbook is a self-guided psychological resource and is not a replacement for professional clinical care or specialist bereavement support. If your grief feels unmanageable, has become significantly disabling, or is accompanied by thoughts of self-harm or not wanting to be here, please reach out for support.

For UK bereavement support: Cruse Bereavement Care (0808 808 1677, cruse.org.uk), Sue Ryder's free online bereavement community (sueryder.org), or your GP for referral to specialist bereavement counselling.

If you are in immediate crisis, please contact NHS 111 or the Samaritans (116 123 — free, 24/7).

Due to the digital nature of this product, we are unable to offer refunds once the file has been downloaded.