Healing After Job Loss
100 Practical Ideas
Full of practical, time-tested counsel, this handbook offers simple, useful tips and activities to counter the typically negative reactions to job loss, such as loss of self esteem, and explores thoughts and feelings with the goal of healing. Whether discussing situations when companies have been downsized or individuals have been fired, furloughed, or laid off, this guide provides a healthy way of dealing with often overwhelming feelings—of anger, anxiety, depression, and hopelessness—in a healthy, hopeful manner.
Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD,
is a speaker, a grief counselor, the director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition, and the author of several books, including Healing Your Grieving Heart, The Journey Through Grief, and Understanding Your Grief. Kirby J. Duvall, MD,
is a family physician and an occupational-medicine specialist. He is a faculty member of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. They both live in Fort Collins, Colorado.
