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Every Mind Matters
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NHS self help for sleep, low mood, anxiety and stress, including a short personal plan.
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Mind
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Clear information on mental health, treatment options and how to ask for help.
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Forgiveness and Health
Loren Toussaint, Everett Worthington and David Williams
Best for the evidence on forgiveness, including its limits.
A serious survey of what forgiveness does and does not do, which includes the critique that forgiveness interventions can push people towards premature reconciliation. Worth reading precisely because it refuses to sell the idea. Whether to forgive anybody is your decision and this helps you make it with the evidence in front of you.
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Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy
J. William Worden
Best for grief as tasks rather than stages.
Worden replaced the idea that grief passes through stages with the idea that it involves tasks, including the work of accommodating a loss rather than completing it. That distinction matters if you are carrying something and have been told you should be finished by now. Accommodation has no deadline.
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The Other Side of Sadness
George Bonanno
Best for knowing that most people recover without being processed.
Bonanno's data shows that resilience is the most common response to loss, and that prescribed emotional processing can sometimes make things worse. It is a corrective to the assumption that an unremarkable account of a difficult event must be avoidance, and it is the reason nobody should be pushed to describe the worst part.
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