Grief category: 2356 books
When the Past Won't Let You Go
Find the Healing That Helps You Move On
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Is Your Yesterday Getting in the Way of Today and Tomorrow?
Release your past to God once and for all with the help of respected Christian counselor H. Norman Wright, who has worked with grief-stricken individuals in the aftermath of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and mass shootings.
Whether...
by Skip Crayton
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
When Jane, Skip Crayton’s wife of thirty-seven years, died he felt like he’d died with her. Skip knew that there would be life after death for Jane, but he never thought there would be life after her death for him. Stages of grief vary from person to person—many get angry and many focus that...
by H. Norman Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Life is marked by a variety of losses, says certified trauma specialist H. Norman Wright. Some are life-changing, such as leaving home, the effects of natural disasters or war, the death of a loved one, or divorce. Others are subtle, such as changing jobs, moving, or a broken friendship. But whether...
Caring for the Dying
The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the end-of-life doula model is adapted from the work of birth doulas...
Bereavement Narratives
Continuing bonds in the twenty-first century
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Bereavement is often treated as a psychological condition of the individual with both healthy and pathological forms. However, this empirically-grounded study argues that this is not always the best or only way to help the bereaved. In a radical departure, it emphasises normality and social and cultural...
by Madeleine Zeldin
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
When her beloved soul friend husband, Gerald, passed away a few years ago, and her friends and sons moved to distant cities, she found herself alone for the first time in her life. Gerald, a professional artist, had his studio in their home. Their home was always filled with family life, art, music,...
To Die Well
Your Right to Comfort, Calm, and Choice in the Last Days of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Knowing our rights to refuse treatment, and ways to bring death earlier if pain or distress cannot be alleviated, will spare us the frightening helplessness that can rob our last days of meaning and personal connection. Drs. Wanzer and Glenmullen clarify what patients should insist of their doctors,...
journey in shades
poetry in light and dark
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
In this first collection English poet Mary Pargeter re-visits her childhood, loss of innocence, states of love, heartbreak and death, and reflects, with admirable frankness, on those universal rites of passage common to us all The first poems present an idyllic childhood running free in the exquisite...
by Ruthann Reim McCaffree
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
How can you begin rebuilding your life when the sudden loss of someone you love shatters the happiness and contentment you have created together? This is the dilemma author Ruthann Reim McCaffree faced when her husband Terry fell from a ladder and died, suddenly, at the age of 61. One moment they were...
Memories Too Few
A Letter to Parents about Pregnancy Loss
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
Few people understand the true depths of pregnancy loss. Many treat miscarriage, stillbirth or newborn death as minor grief. Kathy Burns has written a personal message to parents who have experienced the death of a child during pregnancy.
by Sabra Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Research has shown that widowed black women have unique circumstances that aren't always addressed in most widow support groups and organizations. Losing a husband is an event no woman wants to face, no matter the culture or race. Grief has no respecter of person however; the end results of a loss...
The Mermaid's Garden
Shadows of The Heart, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2014
Shadows of The Heart Series. Vol 2 The Mermaid’s Garden depicts the love shared between a couple as they fight cancer together. One is the support for the one who is stricken. Both feel the grief, the pain and suffering. As the bond of love grows stronger, the will to continue the fight grows...
When Your Father Dies
How a Man Deals with the Loss of His Father
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Whether his passing was sudden or gradual, regardless of the health of the father-son relationship . . . when the man who gave you life dies, a part of you dies as well. It is an emotional rite of passage that affects who you are, how you relate to others, how you deal with your past, and how you...
Disaster Falls
A Family Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away
On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah’s Green River, Stéphane Gerson’s eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That night, as darkness fell, Stéphane huddled in a tent...