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Between the Bylines
The Life, Love and Loss of Los Angeles's Most Colorful Sports Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A sportswriter’s deeply personal memoir of the love that turned his life around, and the struggle to overcome his wife’s tragic death.
Doug Krikorian beat deadlines and made headlines for more than four decades as the Los Angeles region’s most compelling sportswriter. His brash and combative...
The Depression of Grief
Coping with Your Sadness and Knowing When to Get Help
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Recognizing that depression is a normal and natural component of grief, this compassionate guide helps mourners understand their depression, express it in healing ways, and know when they may be experiencing a more severe or clinical depression that would be eased by professional treatment. It proposes...
Helping Grieving People - When Tears Are Not Enough
A Handbook for Care Providers
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Helping Grieving People – When Tears Are Not Enough is a handbook for care providers who provide service, support and counseling to those grieving death, illness, and other losses. This book is also an excellent text for academic courses as well as for staff development training. The author addresses...
The Wise Inheritor
A Guide to Managing, Investing and Enjoying Your Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2003
The complete guide for managing the financial, legal, and emotional issues of inheritances large and small.
A death in the family is never easy, but receiving an inheritance, whether expected or not, can leave heirs feeling overwhelmed and even guilty at this change in their fortunes. Ann Perry’s...
Dunblane
Never Forget
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Mick North's daughter Sophie was one of the children killed in the massacre at Dunblane Primary School. Dunblane: Never Forget is a personal account of Mick's life before and after the massacre and includes a critical assessement of the events that led to the tragedy and those that have followed.
He...
Widowed
Moving Through the Pain of Widowhood to Find Meaning and Purpose in Your Life Again
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Shares the personal journey of a widow turned life coach
Practical tools for healing
Ways to discover what your priorities in life are now
How to get through your unique process of grief
Finding evidence of your loved one's continued existence
How to become aware of what obstacles continue to show up as you move forward through grief
The Sun Still Rises
Surviving and Thriving after Grief and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Coping with the loss of a loved one is perhaps the most difficult and devastating challenge any of us face in our lifetime.
The grief you feel hurts more than physical pain.
And yet, somehow, life is still going on around you.
Is it even possible to survive, let alone thrive,...
Acceptance
A Personal Journey of Self-Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
As her father's casket was being lowered into the grave, deep in mourning and unable to cope with her gut-wrenching loss Mali Munroe welded the door shut on her emotions. Years passed and feeling disconnected became the status quo. Until one night during yoga class when she came face to face with...
The Art of Comforting
What to Say and Do for People in Distress
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
We live in an increasingly "virtual" world in which it can be tempting to skip making that true, human connection with someone in pain. Even though our thoughts might be with them, we lack the confidence to reach out, worrying that we will say or do the "wrong" thing.
In this practical, step-by-step...
Finding Joy
A Mother’s Journey After Losing Two Sons
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Judy lived an idyllic life in Canada’s picturesque Muskoka cottage country. She had a loving relationship, a good job and was the proud mother of two boys. Mark was the joyful troublemaker, a rough-and-tumble free spirit who would give anyone the shirt off his back. Jason was the quiet, sensitive one,...
A Short Course in Happiness After Loss
(and Other Dark, Difficult Times)
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A Short Course in Happiness After Loss brings to us a powerful intersection of the science of positive psychology and the wisdom necessary to thrive when facing life’s harshest moments. In poetic, compassionate and yet fearless language, Sirois traverses the territories we most fear—death, exile,...
by Elroy Bode
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The thoughts, scenes, and observations gathered in this collection written by an aging Elroy Bode concern themselves on the surface with the daily happenings during a typical year, reflecting the author’s sense of kinship with the people, creatures, and beauty of the Texas desert. Upon closer inspection,...
The Sun Will Shine Again
Life Lessons from a Year of Grieving
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
The Sun Will Shine Again is Sissy Taran's tears-and-laughter chronicle of her journey through grief and her unexpected growth and self-discovery following the sudden death of her husband. Told with conversational candor and numerous personal stories—from surviving the holidays to managing home repairs...
by Joseph P. Badame
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
The former generations of self-sacrificing and benevolent Americans are dying and dying with them is American greatness and generosity. That greatness is being replaced by the entitlement mentality of much of our younger generation of today. The mentality is now approaching an epidemic and threatens...