Grief category: 2356 books
by Harriet Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Will I survive? Will I ever be happy again? These are questions that Harriet Hodgson asked herself after she was left to raise her twin grandchildren, while grieving for four family members, including her daughter. Harriet reminds us that we are not alone in our grief and, though losses may define our lives, they will not destroy them.
by Jan Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
'This is a wonderful, beautiful little book. It is like a quiet, wise friend, full of comfort and practical counsel, when your world has collapsed or changed beyond recognition. It is like a crib sheet of how to cope; it is as helpful to friends of widows as to the widows themselves, and it is written...
Amending Dreams
Reflections and Meditations of a Widow
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2005
Offering hope that you can amend your shattered dreams, Amending Dreams-Reflections and Meditations of a Widow, offers personal reflections concerning feelings, thoughts, moods, problems, joys and discoveries that were stored in journals after the death of Joyce George's husband of 28 years. In addition...
by Mike Gayle
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
A compelling and emotional novel, for fans of Jojo Moyes and Jenny Colgan.
**'With a style similar to David Nicholls, Gayle's writing is incisive, lyrical and very beautiful...It's impossible not to fall in love with the Hope family' Irish Independent
Tom Hope is broken. Ever since his...
Death Takes Time
Make the Best Use of Your Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Life, your gift from God. Living, your purpose, responsibly fulfilling the time He gives you in this world. Death, your legacy, leaving behind a spiritual heritage that counts eternally. . . . Dr. Gene Baillie shares his perspective on a part of life we all must face and offers encouragement and suggestions...
Riana's Gift
The Manual for Healing from the Death of a Child or Any Other Traumatic Loss … as Though It Never Happened
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
In November 2005, author Dirk van der Merwe received the call every parent dreads above all others. His daughter, Riana, was dead at thirty-seven. In the shocked silence that followed, both Dirk and his late wife, Elsie, underwent an unusual experience. Some would call it paranormala phenomena that...
The Chance to Say Goodbye
Hope for Grieving Parents
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2004
On November 18, 1999, a tragic accident at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, claimed the lives of twelve young people and seriously injured twenty-seven others when the annual bonfire to celebrate the University of Texas versus Texas A&M Thanksgiving football game collapsed during...
What Really Matters
7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
In this book of stories gleaned from her work as a hospice physician, Dr. Karen Wyatt shares the life lessons and spiritual transformations experienced by her patients and their loved ones at the end-of-life. Through poignant tales of love, forgiveness and surrender she chronicles her own spiritual...
Healing Your Grieving Soul
100 Spiritual Practices for Mourners
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Following a helpful introduction about the role of spirituality in grief, this practical mourning guide suggests activities based on meditation, prayer, yoga, and contemplative solitude to help with feelings of despair. For mourners who suffer from anxiety, breathing exercises are recommended, and...
Seeking Hope
Stories of the Suicide Bereaved
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Surviving suicide loss is often about telling the story. Each person who dies by suicide leaves behind a life shared with loved ones and a series of events that led to the suicide. Seeking Hope: Stories of the Suicide Bereaved features the stories of fourteen people in their own words of the losses that...
by Peggy Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2006
" a unique opportunity to learn about caregiving from a true veteran and practitioner of the art."-Jon D. Kaiser, M.D., Physician and Author of Healing HIV
Coping with illness and dying is a challenge. How do we allocate resources? What are the rights and responsibilities of the sick...
by M. T. Dohaney
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
One Friday, Walter Dohaney, novelist M.T. (Jean) Dohaney’s husband, went out as usual to play hockey with his friends. She never saw him alive again. Without warning, Jean was plunged into the most painful and disorienting experience of her life. Faced with a tumult of emotions and sudden responsibilities,...
Boy
The Story of My Teenage Son's Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
When 14-year-old John Peter made the tragic decision to end his life by hanging himself, he left behind a devastated family who grappled not only with coping with the overwhelming loss of a beloved son and brother, but also coming to terms with the incomprehensible choice he made that afternoon. An...
Ethical Wills
Putting Your Values on Paper
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
As evidenced in the Terri Schiavo case that made national headlines, having a living will is an essential element in ensuring that the way in which you would like to spend your last days will be respected. It informs both family and doctors of your medical treatment preferences in specific situations....