Bereavement category: 2356 books
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...
A Widow's Guide to Healing
Gentle Support and Advice for the First 5 Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
An inspiring, accessible, and empowering guide for how to navigate the unique grief and challenges of widowhood and create a hopeful future.
When Kristin Meekhof lost her husband to cancer, she discovered what all widows learn: the moment you lose your partner, you must make crucial decisions...
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
How to Survive the Loss of a Parent
A Guide for Adults
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
We expect our parents to die before we do. Most of us agree that this is the “natural” order of things. Because of this assumption, people are often shocked by how deeply sad and even traumatized they feel when they lose a parent. They wonder why it takes so long to recover—how even months or...
Who is My Echo?
A Mother's Journey Following the Tragic Death of her Son
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Read the story of a mother’s journey following the tragic death of her son. On October 22, 2006, Nancy Collins’ son Derek died. Her “normal” existence vanished. Her life’s direction abruptly changed. Ms. Collins gives a poignant memoir of her son’s tragic death and her own personal struggle...
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...
by Jill Krementz
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
18 children from age 7 - 17, speak openly of their experiences and feelings. As they speak we see them in photos with their surviving parent and with other family members, in the midst of their everyday lives.
Grief Is a Journey
Finding Your Path Through Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In this “volume of rare sensitivity, penetrating understanding, and profound insights” (Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, author of Living When a Loved One Has Died), Dr. Kenneth Doka explores a new, compassionate way to grieve, explaining that grief is not an illness to get over but an individual and ongoing...
The Worst Loss
How Families Heal from the Death of a Child
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The death of a child is like no other loss. Barbara D. Rosof's The Worst Loss will help families who have experienced this to know what they are facing, understand what they are feeling, and appreciate their own needs and timetables.
Moments Near Life's End
It's hard to say goodbye
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
We are all going to die some day. In this book I share experiences of others as they face the dying process. It is never easy, always sad. By hearing what others have gone through, hearing their stories, it helps us come to terms with what will happen to us and our loved ones. Reading some of the...
Who Am I . . .Really?
A Journey to Heaven
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
What happens to a nine-year old child when she sees her father dying in the hospital? Then, forty years later, she is the caretaker for her mother and present as she passes from this world to the next. From there her own journey began in her search for truth and understanding the death process. ...
by Mark Gunther
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
"With a writing style that is as clear-minded and straightforward as it is absorbing, Without Jenny pulls the reader in to family’s great depths of emotion." —Foreword Reviews
**Joy Rosenberg thinks she’s the luckiest person in the world, with satisfying work, a passionate...
Celebrating Life
Words of Comfort
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Reinforcing the 1-800-FLOWERS.COM and Celebrations.com philosophy of helping customers express, connect, and celebrate, Jim McCann balances the practical with the poignant inside Celebrating Life. More than just a collection of sympathetic sentiments, Celebrating Life serves as a catalyst for sharing...
Going Home
Finding Peace When Pets Die
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
In this invaluable guide and touchstone, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz addresses the difficult but necessary topic of saying goodbye to a beloved pet. Drawing on personal experiences, stories from fellow pet owners, and philosophical reflections, Katz provides support for those in mourning....