Bereavement category: 2356 books
I Don't Buy Green Bananas
(Center Stage with Cancer)
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Is there an upside to cancer? There is if youre Joan Butman. In her latest collection of faith essays, I Dont Buy Green Bananas! (center stage with cancer), Joan takes on her biggest challenge yet: a cancer diagnosis.
Facing a terminal illness hasnt dampened Joans faith or her sense of humor....
by H. Norman Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Life is marked by a variety of losses, says certified trauma specialist H. Norman Wright. Some are life-changing, such as leaving home, the effects of natural disasters or war, the death of a loved one, or divorce. Others are subtle, such as changing jobs, moving, or a broken friendship. But whether...
by Judy Brizendine
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
A highly focused, conversational book that cuts through the clutter and zeroes in on flashpoint issues critical to a griever’s healing, the approach to grief presented here is revealing, practical, and down-to-earth. Designed for anyone struggling with death-or any of life’s tragic losses-it features...
by Diane Goble
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2011
The author had a near-death experience in 1971 and was given certain information to bring back with her to share with others. For the past 40 years she has been working in the field of death and dying as a spiritual counselor, hospice volunteer, and is the author of several books and a major NDE web...
Trauma Through a Child's Eyes
Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
An essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—what parents, educators, and health professionals can do.
Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones, but from natural disasters...
The Near-Death Experiences of Suicide Survivors
Near-Death Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2015
All subject stories are straight from media interviews. We reviewed hundreds of hours of interviews and excerpted those that spoke most directly to the experience of an NDE from suicide.
Suicide Survivors Share the Stories of Their Near-death Experiences
Learn First-Hand What Happens...
by Shirley Reeser McNally
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
What happens to wives when husbands die? The quick answer is widowhood. The deeper truth is they are forced into a life change that has serious ramifications for themselves, their families, their friends and their futures. Are poems and songs written about widow-heroes, does literature extol their...
Healing a Child's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say-or what not to say-to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches that...
Art of Living, Art of Dying
Spiritual Care for a Good Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Without an appropriate spiritual care model, it can be difficult to discuss existential questions about death and dying with people who are confronted with life-threatening or incurable diseases. This book offers a simple framework for interpreting existential questions with patients and helping them...
The Journey Home
A companion for contemplating life's most important journey.
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The Journey Home was born of over twenty years experience of walking with those who are suffering. It is designed to help you think through important things that we all needs to consider now, but which many choose to ignore until it’s too late...
This book is for people in pain. It...
by V. L. Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The story of my daughter. An alcoholic who also was addicted to drugs. The good, bad, ugly and hell in the life of addiction. Her life can be used as an example of the nightmare of addiction. Written by mother in hopes of helping at least on person see that addiction not only lives in the addict,...
Excessive Use of Force
One Mother’s Struggle Against Police Brutality and Misconduct
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The vast majority of the law enforcement officers in this country perform their very difficult jobs with respect for their communities and in compliance with the law. Even so, there have been incidents in which this was not the case. Police brutality and misconduct has been under the microscope for...
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering
Trauma, History, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors...
Creating Inclusion and Well-being for Marginalized Students
Whole-School Approaches to Supporting Children’s Grief, Loss, and Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
It is increasingly challenging for teachers to educate without a deeper understanding of the experience of their students. This is particularly the case in marginalised groups of young people who are subject to loss, grief, trauma and shame. Through a snapshot of the diverse student populous, this...