Grief category: 2356 books
Finding Peace Without All The Pieces
After a Loved One's Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Launched with a powerful narrative thrust of the suicide of her son in 1978, LaRita Archibald leads the reader from the initial trauma of violent death, through the ragged, brutal and unknown psychological and emotional landscape that must be traversed to find eventual healing and peace. Using lessons...
Forever Kalei’S Mom
A Story About Life, My Child’S Death and What Forever Really Means
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
In the space of a heartbeat, author Lorene Holizki was thrust into a world she did not know or want. On August 20, 2001, the unimaginable happened; her 16-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Kalei, was killed instantly in a head-on car crash.
Desperate for insight into the emotions that threatened...
F-You: The Forgiveness Project
Grief, Loss, and Acceptance
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The F-You Project's commitment to creating a supportive environment for young people to tell the story of their deepest hurts is an inspiration. A more peaceful world starts with each of us finding a safe place to let go of our pain, anger and resentment. F-You and their remarkable community-building...
Healing Your Holiday Grief
100 Practical Ideas for Blending Mourning and Celebration During the Holiday Season
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
With compassionate insight, this handbook helps those in mourning through what can be the hardest time of year—the holiday season. Mourners will better understand their complex emotions after reading about such topics as honoring thoughts and feelings, creating new traditions, finding ways to de-stress,...
More Than Sympathy
Essential Advice on Funerals, Money, Family, and Grief After the Death of a Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Making sensible decisions during a time of grief is never easy. Losing a husband, wife, father, mother, child or another near and dear person forces you to make a multitude of decisions, some large and life-changing, some small but emotionally charged. And if substantial amounts of money or conflicting...
Preparing to Die
Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
We all face death, but how many of us are actually ready for it? Whether our own death or that of a loved one comes first, how prepared are we, spiritually or practically? In Preparing to Die, Andrew Holecek presents a wide array of resources to help the reader address this unfinished business.
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by Anne Pieterse
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
What if, you brought me a white rose And placed the petals around my heart; And then promised me We would never ever part? ~ Whisper, by Anne Pieterse In 1998, Anne Pieterse and her husband took their family on a beach holiday. Tragically their youngest son Kristo was swept away one day and they never...
by Susanne E. Levi
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
First let me say that I never, in my worst nightmare, would have wanted to write a book on this subject. But because I did have the worst thing happen to me in my life, I wanted to let people who have never experienced the loss of a child have a better understanding of what life is like for the parents,...
The Unspeakable Loss
How Do You Live After a Child Dies?
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A guide to hope and healing after the death of a child, from a grief counselor and psychotherapist who has been there.
Nisha Zenoff lost her son in a tragic accident when he was just seventeen years old. Now, with decades of experience as a grief counselor and psychotherapist, she offers support...
Songs from the Well
A Memoir of Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Songs from the Well: A Memoir of Love is the remarkable chronicle of award-winning poet and author Adam Byrn Tritt’s love for his wife, Lee; his sudden and heartbreaking loss of her to brain cancer; and his struggle to find a way back to life, as told through essays and poetry written during their...
Widows' Words
Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words.
Some were widowed young, while others were...
Children and Grief
Helping Your Child Understand Death
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
This is a book written for you and your children," explains Joey O'Connor. "It initiates a conversation on a difficult subject most people prefer to avoid. It is about people like you and me struggling to figure out what they really believe when the unbelievable has happened. And then wondering,...
Memories of the Heart
A Story of Love, Loss, and Learning to Live Again
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Anyone who has lived life long enough already knows that with tremendous love also comes tremendous loss. Often, we are faced with a life limiting illness before the loss, leaving us time to anticipate our next move. Other times, the loss comes suddenly, leaving us in shock and unsure where to turn...
by William J. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
What do you do when someone you love has taken their own life? You have entered a whole new world that you did not choose to enter and where you feel confused and alone. This book not only will help guide survivors of suicide through the very difficult time of grief, but offers hope at a time that...