Grief category: 2356 books
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...
Bereavement Care
A New Look at Hospice and Community Based Services
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Here is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at current bereavement care practices and key concerns of care providers. Covering a broad spectrum of topics, interests, and perspectives from divergent disciplines and clinical experiences, the contributing authors explore theories and constructs that...
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...
Finding the Words
How to Talk with Children and Teens about Death, Suicide, Homicide, Funerals, Cremation, and other E
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
With this compassionate book by respected grief counselor and educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, readers will find simplified and suitable methods for talking to children and teenagers about sensitive topics with an emphasis on the subject of death. Honest but child-appropriate language is advocated, and...
The Dying Time
Practical Wisdom for the Dying & Their Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
"One of the best books available on caring for the dying, The Dying Time combines deep insight and down-to-earth practicality. All caregivers need to know what's between these covers. This book demystifies the process of death, yet honors the sacredness of life's final transition. Highly recommended."
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When I Look to the Sky
A Collection of Quotes, Poems, and Prayers for Loss, Grief, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.”
—Buddha
The loss of a loved one is one of the most difficult things a person can endure, and it is all too easy to lose sight of ourselves in the experience of grief. Yet it is in these times of trouble, when...
How to Survive the Worst That Can Happen
A Parent's Step by Step Guide to Healing After the Loss of a Child
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Sandy Peckinpahs sixteen-year old son woke up with a fever and was dead the next morning of bacterial meningitis her life changed forever. She found herself in the depths of unimaginable despair. Then, someone gave her a journal, and writing opened her journey of self-discovery in learning how to...
Resisting Elegy
On Grief and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In this thoughtful collection of narratives, author Joel Peckham explores the transformative power of emotional and physical pain from the vantage point of a husband and parent who lost his wife and a child in an accident that left him in chronic distress. Along the way, he fills a need for a brutally honest literary examination of not only grief and suffering, but also of recovery.
Surprised Pink Geraniums
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
There is no process, no beginning, no middle or end to grief; it just is. And that simple existence changes everything.
Author Pat Brown lost the love of her life in 2005. When Tom, her husband of eighteen years, died of a hemorrhagic stroke, she was surprisedand sometimes dismayedto discover...
by David Balk, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
"Capturing from the start that 'Childhood is, and always has been, a vulnerable time,' we have a rich in gathering of contributed pieces that bring us into the raw, fragile arena of children traumatized by life events and behaviors..." --Illness, Crisis, and Loss
"Balk and Corr again have edited...
by Jan Owen
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2017
“…loss is like a rock tossed into the middle of a placid pond: the waves go on and on, reaching far beyond the initial impact, touching places within my life I never foresaw or imagined. And it has left me forever altered.” Jan Owen was widowed at the age of forty-eight. In this book of...
by Mandell, Sherri
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Sherri Mandell, an American immigrant to Israel, offers this hauntingly beautiful memoir of a year of grief following the horrific murder of her 13-year-old son, Koby, found stoned to death along with a friend by Palestinian terrorists near his Tekoa home in 2001. This profoundly moving prose-poem...
by Eileen Colville
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
It goes without saying that death is inevitable, but it is not something any of us knows a lot about. So when fate delivers us in the role of planning the funeral of someone we love, many find themselves at a loss. There are a lot of issues that arise that need attention quickly. Practical matters and...
by Rosemary Pavey-Snell
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
When Rosemary Pavey-Snells husband died of cancer, her world was shattered. Despite being a counsellor and psychotherapist herself, she had no way to prepare for something so terrible.
But she remembered what her husband, Allan, always used to say before going to bed: It will be all right in...