Grief category: 2356 books
Counseling Clients Near the End of Life
A Practical Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
"I found this book to be a well-written, sensitively presented, and important resource for those engaged in this critical area of work. Thank you, Dr. Werth, for making such a substantial contribution to this field."--Journal of Palliative Care
"[This book offers] over 20 contributors,...
Project Rebirth
Survival and the Strength of the Human Spirit from 9/11 Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Written in conjunction with the documentary Rebirth, a full decade in the making, an uplifting look at the lives of nine individuals whose lives were forever changed by the largest tragedy our nation has ever faced.
The images of the burning towers, the heartbroken friends building memorials,...
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...
by M.H. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
When you lose the most important person in your life, it's hard to believe you can continue without them. It can take months or even years to deal with the grief and even then it never truly goes away; you only learn to manage it.
In You Can Survive This, M.H. Lee draws upon the personal experience...
by Peter Bridgewater
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
The emotional responses to death are unpredictable and individual, with denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance all natural stages of the grief cycle. Mindfulness & The Journey of Bereavement explores the universal, life-changing journey of grief and offers insight into how we can understand...
Healing a Parent's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Your Child Dies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Presenting simple yet highly effective methods for coping and healing, this book provides answers and relief to parents trying to deal with the loss of a child. It offers 100 practical, action-oriented tips for embracing grief, such as writing a letter to the child who has died; spending time with...
Companioning the Bereaved
A Soulful Guide for Counselors & Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Renowned author and educator Alan Wolfelt redefines the role of the grief counselor in this guide for caregivers. His new model for "companioning" the bereaved gives a viable alternative to the limitations of the medical establishment, encouraging counselors and other caregivers to aspire...
by Nicol Louise, Cinda the Curly-Coated Retriever
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Do you love dogs and nature?
Would you like to understand the soul energy of dogs on a conscious and higher soul level?
Would you like to know what happens to dogs following their life on earth?
Have you lost a special furry friend and found the grief immeasurable?
Have...
by Joseph Bayly
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Three of Joseph Bayly's seven children died at young ages. He was intimately acquainted with the pain of death and was all too familiar with what he once called this enemy's "grim violence." But he was even more intimately acquainted with the One who conquered that enemy forever.
The...
A Cross by the Road
Memoir of a Death Foretold
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
This true story begins with a mothers terrifying dream that foretold the accidental death of her adult son. She continued to have subtle premonitions that she didnt understand until it was too late. When her son died as the dream predicted, she was riddled with guilt at not having been able to save...
Young Widower
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
John W. Evans was twenty-nine years old and his wife, Katie, was thirty. They had met in the Peace Corps in Bangladesh, taught in Chicago, studied in Miami, and were working for a year in Romania when they set off with friends to hike into the Carpathian Mountains. In an instant their life together...
When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter
Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
For every parent who loses a child, when one life ends another life is forever changed. --from When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks presents a breakthrough concept of mourning, documenting the process of evolution from initial grief to an altered outlook on life. Excerpts from interviews...
The Grieving Teen
A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2001
In this unique and compassionate guide, renowned grief counselor Helen Fitzgerald turns her attention to the special needs of adolescents struggling with loss and gives teens the tools they need to work through their pain and grief.
Although the circumstances surrounding a death are difficult...