Self-Care for Grief
100 Practices for Healing During Times of Loss
by Nneka M. Okona
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Grievers are often told they need to practice self care. It's a true statement, however the idea of self care can feel completely overwhelming, especially in the early days of grief. Nneka M. Okona's beautiful book, Self-Care for Grief, provides readers with an easy to use resource for self-care practices.
This is a book for the griever. Part one of Okona's book does an excellent job of describing grief, especially for those experiencing the death of a loved one in early grief (she refers to the first few months).
The piece in part one that we also want to highlight is Grief and Mortality Traditions. Not being able to gather for mourning rites has been a very painful part of the pandemic. Ms. Okona describes western grief and jewish traditions and then she gives details about Ghanaian and Nigerian funeral rites, the Black American repass, and grief in Mexican tradition with the Day of the Dead.
Chapter 2 of Part 1 then describes self-care with historical relevance. Nneka writes "It’s important to note that self-care as a way of life emerged from Black activism and the feminist thought and teachings of writers such as Lorde."
Part 2 includes 100 practices for healing that are divided into 4 categories; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual self-care. Readers can easily read the entire book or simply open to a page when they are in need of a self-care suggestion.
We hope you include this in your resources for grievers.
Thank you to Jennifer White AMFT for co-writing this review.