Healing the Empty Nester's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Parents After the Kids Move Out, Go Off to College, or Start Taking Flight (Healing Your Grieving Heart series)

You've spent most of your adult life focused on the care and raising of your children, and now they're leaving. For you and for them, this major transition is often challenging in many ways. You may feel surprised at the power of your grief—a confusing mixture of sadness, hope, emptiness, fear, excitement, and other emotions all at once. This book by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors helps parents understand their normal and necessary empty nester grief. The 100 practical tips and activities are designed to help you acknowledge and express your feelings of loss, foster love and respect, and, over time, find ways to re-instill your life with meaning. Advice is also offered for nurturing a marriage or partnership through this challenging time.

• From Mom to Me Again: How I Survived My First Empty-Nest Year and Reinvented the Rest of My Life
• Empty Nest, Full Life: Discovering God's Best for Your Next
• The Empty Nest Companion: A little book of love and encouragement for when your child leaves the nest
• Chicken Soup for the Soul: Empty Nesters: 101 Stories about Surviving and Thriving When the Kids Leave Home
• Release My Grip: Hope for a Parent's Heart as Kids Leave the Nest and Learn to Fly
• Empty Nest: What's Next?: Parenting Adult Children Without Losing Your Mind
• Empty Nesting Sucks: 12 Steps for dealing with it
• The Second Half of Marriage: : facing the eight challenges of the empty-nest years
• Grown and Flown: How to Support Your Teen, Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults
• Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out