Grief category: 2356 books

Caring for someone you love who is suffering from a terminal illness can be one of the greatest honours in life. Helping a loved one to die with peace, grace and dignity is their human right and a privilege for their carer to enable. It can be a truly transformative experience. In Peaceful Breeze...

What’s going to happen? How will we manage? There are things I still want to do. I’m afraid… As death approaches, both patient and family must cope with grief, pain, and seemingly unanswerable questions. It’s a time of challenge, of concerns. But, as hospice nurse Karen Whitley Bell...

Psychologist and Shanti Project founder, Charles Garfield offers compassionate and expert guidance for friends and families who want to ease their loved ones’ final days. By focusing on the reciprocal and healing relationship between the living and the dying, Life’s Last Gift provides practical tools about connecting, finding peace, and being of service to those at the end of life.

Alexander had just begun his studies at university when he was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer. In this honest account, Alex's mother traces the impact of the diagnosis on the whole family and outlines the issues that arose during diagnosis, treatment and terminal stages of her son's illness. Standing...

Widow’s Walk, book three to Leukemia, My Husband and Me: A Turbulent Triangle: Six months into my Widow's Walk unearths many new challenges.  Now that the stress over Mike's illness is over, dealing with his death as well as my new status poses many, new obstacles.  Enduring the most difficult...

Grief is no stranger to most people. To some degree we each experience its dark tentacles reaching into our soul, and each of us handles it differently. Lyn has felt moved to write a powerful book, dotted with amazing stories, that encourages people to know that even in the depths of despair we can...

Life… It happens to us all! It doesn’t matter if you are rich, poor, Black, White, young, or old — in any culture, to a degree, every human being on this planet will, at some point, experience tragedy. As the saying goes, “It’s not what happens to you that matters — but how...

In January 1984, I endured a sorrow deeper than my worst nightmares and fears. After experiencing two miscarriages, several surgeries, and an enormous amount of emotional disappointment trying to have children, I saw my newborn son's life slip away from me after only 36 hours on this earth. As...

Know how to answer those most-asked questions-by using a scriptural perspective The search for answers remains a valuable catalyst for the growth of personal faith. Ask Anything: A Pastoral Theology of Inquiry provides a fresh approach to answering questions of personal growth, facing problems,...

One morning Lo Anne Mayer wrote a letter to her mother, who had died a year earlier. Despondent over the strained relationship they had endured in life, Mayer started the journal because she still longed for healing. So began a remarkable soul-to-soul correspondence that restored their bond. When her...

Becky Galli was born into a family that valued the power of having a plan. With a pastor father and a stay-at-home mother, her 1960s southern upbringing was bucolic—even enviable. But when her brother, only seventeen, died in a waterskiing accident, the slow unraveling of her perfect family began. Though...

5 Challenges - Our ability to work through the grieving process will be tested - Our life will be changed because of our loss - Our ability to function will be questioned - Our dreams for the future may have to be altered - We will question our reliance on other and even on God 5 Opportunities - We can...

Loss can be devastating, especially when you lose a life-long partner. Now that you are alone you must find the power to go it alone and discover a new purpose in life. But how can you start again and recover from such a change when you feel frozen in grief? Alone, alone, alone will help...

The deaths of Marsha and Tami shattered my core like nothing else. Although my parents, other relatives, and a few of my friends had died prior to Marsha and Tami, none of their deaths had shattered me like this. The brutal murders and the many years to follow that I spent in court took a gruelling...