Grief category: 2356 books
by Katherine Fair Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
An extremely well-written, compassionate guide for the millions of people who come face to face with a death in their own families
The pain and shock when a child dies can seem unbearable. But expert-on-grief Katherine Fair Donnelly, who has suffered many personal losses, has gained wisdom...
Healing Your Traumatized Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Someone You Love Dies a Sudden, Violent Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Dealing with grief in a practical manner, this guide offers compassionate tips for those affected by a traumatic death. Included are topics such as coping with family stress, expressing feelings of hurt and anger, dealing with hurtful comments, and exploring feelings of guilt. Each of the 100 suggestions...
Healing Your Grieving Heart After a Cancer Diagnosis
100 Practical Ideas for Coping, Surviving, and Thriving
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
According to the American Cancer Society, more than one million people get cancer in the United States each year. The diagnosis is often a major physical, emotional, social, and spiritual blow, capable of shaking patients to their core. This empathetic guide coauthored by cancer survivor Dr. Alan...
by Cassie Miller, Brynn Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Unaware that one moment, one split-second can change their lives irrevocably, friends, Brynn and Cassie, find themselves on a journey that will test all that they know.
On September 16th, 2014, as Brynn and Cassie prepared to send their sons to preschool, what should have been a day of excitement...
Starting with Goodbye
A Daughter's Memoir of Love after Loss
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Starting with Goodbye begins with loss and ends with love, as a midlife daughter rediscovers her enigmatic father after his death. Lisa has little time for grief, but when her dead dad drops in for “conversations,” his absent presence invites Lisa to examine why the parent she had turned away...
by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
“I am learning the alchemy of grief—how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted—but I have not yet mastered this art,” writes Judith Ortiz Cofer in The Cruel Country. This richly textured, deeply moving, lyrical memoir centers on Cofer’s return to her native Puerto Rico after...
Devastating Losses
How Parents Cope With the Death of a Child to Suicide or Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
This book fills a critical gap in our scientific understanding of the grief response of parents who have lost a child to traumatic death and the psychotherapeutic strategies that best facilitate healing. It is based on the results of the largest study ever conducted of parents surviving a child's...
Living with Loss, Healing with Hope
A Jewish Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Earl Grollman's Living When a Loved One Has Died has brought comfort to more than 250,000 readers. In Living with Loss, Healing with Hope, Grollman speaks directly to mourners of the Jewish faith. By weaving quotations from Jewish writers and philosophers into his comforting and expert prose, Grollman...
Letters to Brian
A Year of Living and Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
In daily love letters written to her husband and soul companion, Brian, over the year following his death from brain cancer, critically acclaimed author, playwright, and jazz singer Martha Brooks leads us on a journey through grief that is both deeply personal and undeniably universal.
By turns...
Living With Grief
After Sudden Loss Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, Stroke
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Living With Grief
Who We Are How We Grieve
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Produced as a companion to the Hospice Foundation of America's fifth annual National Bereavement Teleconference, this volume examines how key aspects of identity affect how individuals grieve. Variables explored include culture, spirituality, age and development level, class and gender.
The Orphaned Adult
Understanding And Coping With Grief And Change After The Death Of Our Parents
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
A guide to understanding and coping with grief and all of the disorienting emotions that accompany the death of our parents
Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is in the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood. But whether we lose them suddenly or after a...
Caring for Donor Families
Before, During and After
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Integrating vital information on the dynamics of the donation experience and grief education, this revised second edition provides an invaluable resource for hospital and organ procurement caregivers. Going beyond helping professionals understand the challenges of obtaining consent, this guide invites...
In the Wake of the Storm: Living Beyond the Tragedy of American Eagle Flight 4184
Enhanced Digital Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
This expanded eBook edition of In the Wake of the Storm includes new reflections by the author, media coverage and photographs that invite the reader to relive an event that shattered lives and shook the entire aviation industry. This true story of love, loss, resilience, and recovery stirs every...