Grief category: 2356 books
by Medard Laz
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 1998
Coping When Your Spouse Dies helps readers realize that, while you can't bring back a spouse who died, you can face your grief in a series of stages which lead toward personal healing. The author advises those trying to cope with a loss not to bury their feelings, but rather to go through the pain of death and look toward the new life God has provided. Paperback
Making Friends with Death
A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2001
In Making Friends with Death, Buddhist teacher Judith Lief, who's drawn her inspiration from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, shows us that through the powerful combination of contemplation of death and mindfulness practice, we can change how we relate to death, enhance our appreciation of everyday...
The Companioning the Grieving Child Curriculum Book
Activities to Help Children and Teens Heal
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Based on Alan Wolfelt’s six needs of mourning and written to pair with Companioning the Grieving Child, this thorough guide provides hundreds of hands-on activities tailored for grieving children in three age groups: preschool, elementary, and teens. Through the use of readings, games, discussion...
Help for The Hard Times
Getting Through Loss
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Earl Hipp addresses loss and discusses young people's experiences to help you provide students with tools to grieve and ways to keep their losses from becoming too overwhelming.
Earl Hipp addresses loss from the perspective of the heart. He discusses young people's experiences with loss and...
Marrying a Widower
What You Need to Know Before You Tie the Knot
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Are you in a serious relationship with a widower? Are you considering tying the knot? Any lasting relationship takes a lot of work, but a successful marriage to a widower requires the ability for both of you to work through unique issues that most couples don’t face. Are you up to the challenge?...
by Robert Orfali
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
The book every lover should read. "Orfali writes in a straightforward often bullet-pointed style but infuses it with intellectual seriousness and emotional depth. The result is both a useful guide to end-of-life issues and a profound reflection on their meaning. A heartening testament to the ability of love to transcend loss." --Kirkus Discoveries
Eight Critical Questions for Mourners
And the Answers That Will Help You Heal
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Confronting the little griefs” that can occur in the course of a lifetime, this handbook seeks to relieve the inevitable burden of loss. Taking the wilderness experience” into account-being disconnected from oneself and the outside world-this guide presents 12 vital questions, the answers...
Lucy’S Biggest Fish to Fry
A Husband’S Journey Through His Wife’S Fight with Brain Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
It was January of 2009 when Tom Stockburger first noticed his wife, Lucy, acting strangely. He attributed it to exhaustion and sent Lucy to take a nap, with no idea that just a few hours later she would suffer a seizure that eventually led to the life-changing diagnosis of brain cancer. Without warning,...
A Life Complete
Emotional and Spiritual Growth for Midlife and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2000
A Life Complete explains how the choices we make in midlife can become distilled and irreversible by the time we reach our last years. Having worked intimately and rewardingly with countless people in the last years of their lives, psychological counselor and ordained minister Sallirae Henderson offers...
Saying Goodbye
A Guide to Coping with a Loved One's Terminal Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
When someone you love receives a terminal diagnosis, the whole family is suddenly faced with a prolonged crisis. While medical advances have given us the gift of extending life, meaning that a loved one could survive months or even years before dying, it has also changed the way we grieve. Published...
Healing Your Grieving Heart When Someone You Care About Has Alzheimer's
100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends, and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Navigating the challenging journey that families and friends of Alzheimer’s patients must endure, this heartfelt guide reveals how their struggle is as complex and drawn out as the illness itself. Confronting their natural but difficult process of grieving and mourning, the study covers the inevitable...
by Elaine Voci, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This book is written for writers of eulogies and for those who choose to answer the question, after someone they loved and admired has died, "What does this life teach me about how I wish to live the rest of my days?"Eulogies are essentially hopeful rituals that make grief more bearable.Because...
by Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Recognizing how the need to grieve is anchored in one’s capacity to care for someone, this calming guide contends that the act of mourning is healthy-and necessary-following a life-changing loss. The very foundation of attachment is reflected upon, illustrating devotion as both the primary cause...
Mrs. Hunter's Happy Death
Lessons on Living from People Preparing to Die
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
What is the secret of people who die contented and fulfilled? What makes it possible for them to attain such spiritual heights as they approach their physical demise? What enables them to make death a completion of life, rather than a tragic end? And what can they teach us about life and death, love...