Grief category: 2356 books
by Lorraine Elizabeth Stone
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Miscarriage is a taboo word. To discuss such a loss makes many people extremely uncomfortable. As a result, it is all too frequently swept under the carpet, leaving the sufferer feeling desperately alone with their grief. The author is passionate about bringing awareness to the silent suffering endured...
How to Get the Death You Want
A Practical and Moral Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
This is a comprehensive manual for anybody reaching the end of life, and for their caring friends, relatives, advocates, and caretakers. The author, an Episcopal priest, describes in detail the formidable challenges faced by those who wish to avoid months or years of painful treatment after they no...
Belongings
What to do with your loved one's letters and...
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This book seeks to understand the connection bereaved people have with their loved one's personal belongings.It discusses a simple method of keeping only the items that recall the happy moments spent together with family and friends.It offers suggestions on ways to display keepsakes and photos to create...
by Jan Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
With foreword by journalist Robert Peston
When Jan Robinson's husband died suddenly and unexpectedly, she had the idea of asking any other widows, whenever and wherever she met them, for two tips about how to deal with widowhood. From this advice, she constructed her beautiful first volume,...
My House Burned Down and Now I Can See the Stars
Reflections on Losing and Finding
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
"Bereavement counselor Ann Hisle's book of stories, poems, and quotations illustrates spiritual practices that strengthen and prepare us to meet and adapt to the inevitable losses of daily living. The practices help us navigate through these losses so there can be findings. The book is comforting...
Bereaved Parents and their Continuing Bonds
Love after Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
For bereaved parents the development of a continuing bond with the child who has died is a key element in their grieving and in how they manage the future. Using her experience of working in a children's hospital as a counsellor with bereaved parents, Catherine Seigal looks at how continuing bonds...
God's Lent Child
Women Who Found the Grace to Accept What They Must Live Without
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
In God’s Lent Child, women find faith and hope in the midst of the death of their dream. This journey into the darkest night of their souls takes us to a young mother pleading for the life of her newborn; a mother reeling from the shocking news that her college daughter has been kidnapped; a teenage...
Understanding and Supporting Bereaved Children
A Practical Guide for Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
This practical guide provides a framework and useful techniques for helping bereaved youth in numerous settings
This welcomed addition to the field of childhood bereavement is brimming with innovative yet practical interventions for human service professionals helping grieving youth in a variety...
A Mother’s Tears for a Missing Son
A Challenging Spiritual Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
A Mother's Tears for a Missing Son is a first hand account of my personal journey when my son mysteriously disappears in remote Alaska wilderness. It describes the adventures of a free spirited young man who lived on the edge of life and whose choices brought him and his family to an unforeseen outcome...
Widow's Walk
Wandering in the Wilderness of Grief
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
“Your husband has to be rushed to OR. He needs to have a chest tube put in to drain pleural fluid. Every one we’ve seen like this is malignant. Don’t you have family in New Jersey? We think you’d better go back there.”
Thus begins the first step of the wanderings—from diagnosis,...
Before I Go
The Essential Guide to Creating a Good End of Life Plan
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
A compassionate, practical guide to end-of-life matters, empowering us to clarify and share our wishes and continue to live life to the fullest
• Addresses the emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of end-of-life planning to help you prepare well for your death
• Enables the...
Where Did You Go?
A Life-Changing Journey to Connect with Those We’ve Lost
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
“Where Did You Go? offers deep comfort to anyone who has lost a loved one and hopes to explore what frontier science is now demonstrating: while a heart may stop beating, consciousness never dies.”
—Lynne McTaggart, bestselling author of The Field
From Christina Rasmussen, the...
Blue Peninsula
Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
"My son's illness is eight years old and has no name. It started when he was fourteen. He is now twenty-two. It is taking away his ability to walk and to reason. It is getting worse, some years more rapidly than others."
These words begin the first section of Blue Peninsula, a narrative...
by Karen Kenyon
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2000
Sunshower is the story of a journey through a human experiencesurviving the loss of a love by suicide, and the return of hope. Much has been written about why someone would take his or her life, and about the prevention of suicide, but there is little recorded to throw light on what it is like to...