Bereavement category: 2356 books
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...
by Carma Chan
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
On May 4th, 1992, Carma finally got to take her baby home after 73 days on an emotional roller coaster in a place that felt like science fiction. Surrounded by a sea of babies, most of them weighing under 2 pounds (1 kilogram), kept alive through surgeries, daily being needled, tubed, taped and treated...
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...
From Particles and Disputations: Writings for Jeff
A Book of Hours
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
"From Particles and Disputations" is a collection of playful, romantic, candid and personal creative writings that I wrote for my partner Jeff. From our meeting in 1982 until his death from AIDS in 1994 I marked each birthday, anniversary, holiday, and other special or difficult occasion we shared with...
by Guy Newland
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Amid the world-shattering pain of loss, what helps?
“After the death of his beloved partner from cancer, Newland finds himself asking how effective his long years of Buddhist practice have been in helping him come to terms with overwhelming grief. This finely written book offers a lucid meditation...
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...
by Gary Laderman
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
Though it has often been passionately criticized--as fraudulent, exploitative, even pagan--the American funeral home has become nearly as inevitable as death itself, an institution firmly embedded in our culture. But how did the funeral home come to hold such a position? What is its history? And is...
Small Miracles
Coping With Infertility, Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Premature Birth
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
SMALL MIRACLES is a landmark Australian self-help book offering practical advice, inspiration and comfort for anyone coping with the loss of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth or prematurity and related issues such as infertility.
When I Look to the Sky
A Collection of Quotes, Poems, and Prayers for Loss, Grief, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.”
—Buddha
The loss of a loved one is one of the most difficult things a person can endure, and it is all too easy to lose sight of ourselves in the experience of grief. Yet it is in these times of trouble, when...
by Kira Freed
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
"Losing and Finding My Father" is an adult daughter’s journey of discovery sparked by the illness, coma, and subsequent death of her father. Having struggled for years to come to terms with a childhood marked by his invalidation and abuse, she attends to her ailing father, converses with him even...
Resisting Elegy
On Grief and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In this thoughtful collection of narratives, author Joel Peckham explores the transformative power of emotional and physical pain from the vantage point of a husband and parent who lost his wife and a child in an accident that left him in chronic distress. Along the way, he fills a need for a brutally honest literary examination of not only grief and suffering, but also of recovery.
Finding Your Way through Cancer
An Expert Cancer Psychologist Helps Patients and Survivors Face the Challenges of Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Cancer psychologist Andrew Kneier has devoted his career to helping patients master the many challenges and dilemmas that come with a cancer diagnosis. From his work with thousands of people in therapy sessions and cancer support groups, Dr. Kneier has distilled the most common questions and concerns...
Mindfulness for Prolonged Grief
A Guide to Healing after Loss When Depression, Anxiety, and Anger Won't Go Away
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
If you have lost a loved one suddenly or traumatically, have experienced extreme trauma yourself, or simply cannot process the death of someone dear to you, the pain can be overwhelming. For most people, grief resolves on its own, given time; but for many others, grief can lead to serious psychological...
A Matter of Life and Death
60 Voices Share their Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
A Holocaust survivor whose mother collapsed and died only moments after they both registered as survivors, a death row inmate who has reclaimed his life through Buddhism, and a mother whose daughter was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer two days before her thirtieth birthday, among others, offer...