Bereavement category: 2356 books
by Robert Frandeen
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
During a trip to Paris in September, 2005, Robert Frandeen, a professional not particularly looking for a spiritual experience, took a number of pictures of the Circle of Twelve Angels by Jean Jacques Pradier in the crypt of Les Invalides in Paris. At the time, he was moved by the force of presence...
Poor Widow Me
Moments of feeling & dealing & finding the funny along the way
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Poor Widow Me: Moments of feeling & dealing & finding the funny along the way captures the essence of widowhood with a fresh, smart, often humorous, always searingly honest perspective in a collection of 84 bits about life after a husband dies that will bring a unique sense of grief relief to widows...
For the Love of Cancer
A Passionate Pursuit to Understand Life, Death & Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Healing from the loss of a loved one can be a little less painful with reassurance from someone who has traveled the same path. For the Love of Cancer: A passionate pursuit to understand life, death, and spirituality was born from the author’s personal journey as her husband’s caregiver during...
Four Funerals and a Wedding
Resilience in a Time of Grief
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
When journalist Jill Smolowe buried her husband, sister, mother, and mother-in-law in the space of seventeen months, she assumed that it was only a matter of time before she fell apart. That’s what all the movies and memoirs say will happen, after all. But when she never “lost it”—and when...
Companioning the Dying
A Soulful Guide for Counselors & Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
This guide for counselors and lay caregivers explores the art of caring for the dying and their families. Based on the tenets first articulated by renowned grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, this respectful and gratifying guide to caregiving includes personal accounts that debunk the myth of the "good...
My Father's Wake
How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming our fear of death
Death is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County...
by Sean Davison
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Sean Davison made headlines when he was arrested in New Zealand for matricide. The story that emerged - how he helped his ailing mother to die - is the subject of his affecting book, Before We Say Goodbye. This second book, After We Said Goodbye, takes up the story from there: his arrest, trial and...
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DEATH
A Practical Guide to Talking about End-of-Life Care and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Conversations About Death is the result Sally Cant’s twenty years in the death and dying industry. It contains a wealth of information that will make you feel more relaxed, open and comforted by talking about death and dying. Conversations About Death is a much needed tool: to assist in those...
by Adam Lee D'Amato-Neff, Tracy R. McElligott
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Tracy McElligott is dying. This is the profound true life account of her experiences in dealing with her illness, her lung transplant at Stanford University, and recovery. During this crisis, she must struggle with the love and care for her two young children and undergo a divorce. In this dark time comes the love of her life, a modern-day knight in shining armour.
Trauma and the Therapeutic Relationship
Approaches to Process and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Research shows that the therapeutic relationship can offer a catalyst for healing, helping traumatized clients to make sense of and re-build their lives. This book provides practitioners with expert insight into supporting clients' recovery from trauma by placing the therapeutic relationship at the heart...
Who Dies?
An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Who Dies? is the first book to show the reader how to open to the immensity of living with death, to participate fully in life as the perfect preparation for whatever may come next. The Levines provide calm compassion rather than the frightening melodrama of death.
Widow to Widow
How the Bereaved Help One Another
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Widow to Widow shares the experiences of widows who have found comfort and continuity in mutual-help and community support programs. In the second edition of her pioneering text, Phyllis Silverman brings the success of the original widow-to-widow program into the 21st century, preparing a new generation...
Yoga and Grief
A Compassionate Journey Toward Healing
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
After a great loss, the journey toward healing can be a tempestuous one, a fragile balance of light and dark, hope and despair. For many people the practices of yoga can provide a focus on the present moment and a way to restore the balance and energy which we need so urgently in times of stress and...
by Pierre Richard Arty, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Just where is the intersection between spirituality and medicine? Life and Death and the Things in Between is a collection of ten stories documenting the struggles and strengths of the human spirit as it searches for meaning amid challenging circumstances. The stories reveal the psychological and...