Grief category: 2356 books
The Widowers' Manual
Unrevealed Cornerstones to Regenerate Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The author of I’m Sorry for Your Loss presents a practical guidebook for men who have lost their wives and are struggling to move forward in their grief.
In The Widowers’ Manual, Wouter Looten—who lost his wife more than a decade ago—uses his own journey and experience to effectively guide...
Healing the Adult Sibling's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Your Brother or Sister Dies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Compassionate and heartfelt, this collection offers 100 practical ideas to help understand and accept the passing of a sibling in order to practice self-healing. The principles of grief and mourning are clearly defined, accompanied by action-oriented tips for embracing bereavement. Whether a sibling...
Happily Even After
A Guide to Getting Through (and Beyond) the Grief of Widowhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The issues that surround the loss of a spouse are numerous and complex. A very small sampling of these issues include helping children cope with a parent's death, re-entering the workplace and eventually re-entering the world of dating, love and intimacy; as well as moving through a profoundly emotional...
The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide
Starting and Leading a Bereavement Support Group
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
This guide to facilitating support groups offers bereavement caregivers practical strategies for creating and maintaining a productive environment for mourners. Logistical considerations such as setting up and publicizing a new group are discussed, as is the importance of prescreening new members....
by Katie Vecchio
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
On the first day of school, ten-year-old Jeffrey and his six-year-old brother, Tyler, climbed out of the school bus at the foot of their driveway, walking into their home, excited about the first day of school. Instantly, their anticipation for the family back-to-school celebration turned to horror...
How to Survive the Loss of a Parent
A Guide for Adults
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
We expect our parents to die before we do. Most of us agree that this is the “natural” order of things. Because of this assumption, people are often shocked by how deeply sad and even traumatized they feel when they lose a parent. They wonder why it takes so long to recover—how even months or...
by Elizabeth Heineman
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Ghostbelly is Elizabeth Heineman’s personal account of a home birth that goes tragically wrong-ending in a stillbirth-and the harrowing process of grief and questioning that follows. It’s also Heineman’s unexpected tale of the loss of a newborn: before burial, she brings the baby home for overnight...
by Mark Gunther
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
"With a writing style that is as clear-minded and straightforward as it is absorbing, Without Jenny pulls the reader in to family’s great depths of emotion." —Foreword Reviews
**Joy Rosenberg thinks she’s the luckiest person in the world, with satisfying work, a passionate...
Celebrating Life
Words of Comfort
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Reinforcing the 1-800-FLOWERS.COM and Celebrations.com philosophy of helping customers express, connect, and celebrate, Jim McCann balances the practical with the poignant inside Celebrating Life. More than just a collection of sympathetic sentiments, Celebrating Life serves as a catalyst for sharing...
Breathe
A Memoir of Motherhood, Grief, and Family Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Kelly Kittel didn’t know the true meaning of the phrase “in the wrong place and the wrong time” until she fell victim to just such a circumstance—and lost her infant son as a result. In the wake of their son’s death, Kittel and her husband are overcome with grief—and they’re still trying...
by Heidi Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Grief after suicide is unique and complicated, shrouded in mystery, shame, and stigma. Many people are uncomfortable around the topic and as a result, have no idea how to help a friend or relative who has just lost someone to suicide. Having survived her brother Jeff's suicide, Heidi Bryan experienced...
My Husband Has Died, but That’S Not the Funny Part
When Laughter and Love Overcome Grief and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Losing her husband Dennis unexpectedly in 2011, at the young age of 47, Debra was faced with handling grief in the only way she knew how, with strength, grace and much laughter. Debra worked through her tears by posting to her husband each day (for one year) on a social media website after his passing....
by Rose Styron
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
In this remarkable new collection, her first in over a decade, Rose Styron confronts the death of her husband—step by step—in jewel-like poems. Seldom has a poet been so attuned to the ways in which, under the pressure of grief, time both opens and shuts—letting us into its minutes, shutting us...
Healing Your Grieving Heart After Stillbirth
100 Practical Ideas for Parents and Families
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Beloved grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt compassionately explores the common feelings of shock, anger, guilt, and sadness that accompany a stillborn child, offering suggestions for expressing feelings, remembering the child, and healing as a family. Ideas to help each unique person—mother, father,...