Bereavement category: 2356 books
Standing On His Own Two Feet
A Diary of Dying
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
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...
Grief Diaries
Through the Eyes of a Widow
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2019
Widows in today’s world find little support to recover and adapt to a life they didn’t plan. Friends, family, and others have little idea about how to help, leaving them in a vulnerable spot when they need support most.
What can widows do? Where do they turn for help? How do they face the...
Grief Diaries
Surviving Loss of a Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Kasi’s cousin died in a car accident in 2009. Mary Lee’s grandson died of carbon monoxide poisoning in 1998. Kayla’s uncle died by suicide in 2001.
Part of the award-winning Grief Diaries series, **Surviving Loss of a Loved One** shares the poignant stories of people who have all lost...
Grief Diaries
Surviving Loss of a Parent
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Patti was 14 when her father died suddenly of a heart attack. Mary was 26 when her father died from a fall. Vicki was 5 when her mother died in a freak car accident. They all have one thing in common: a journey of intense heartache and a rollercoaster of emotions ranging from sadness and disbelief...
The Healing Circle
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Nancy Moore, a grief counsellor, felt inspired to write this book by all the wounded yet wonderful, loving people who need support at times of loss and grief. In The Healing Circle she takes the reader step-by-step through the loss of her partner, and her gradual adjustment to the new circumstances in...
The Empty Bed
Coming to Terms with Death
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
We are told that death is part of life. We are told that we should respect the journey and hope that there is a reward for a life well lived. We are told that there is a Heaven which follows death, and that the deceased will find eternal peace. We are told all sorts of things in order to help us cope...
The Grief Helpline
Restoring Your Joy After Experiencing a Personal Loss
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
The road to recovery after the loss of a loved one can seem hopeless and endless. As no stranger to tragedy, author Vernessa Blackwell understands the paralyzing effects that can be caused by the deaths of loved ones, especially when you feel there is nowhere or no one to turn to. In *The Grief Helpline*,...
by Sara Dumaine Brouillet
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
GETTING BACK IN THE RIVER creates the opportunity for new insights and fresh, yet timeless, understandings of grieving, and provides actual steps of core healing in bereavement.
by Yin (SOS)
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
When she was only seven, Yin's mother took her own life. Forty years later her father jumped to his death. This is the story of how she survived her parents' suicides. “When someone dear to us dies through suicide, we are left with the agonising ordeal of having to survive the heart-rending...
How to Get the Death You Want
A Practical and Moral Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
This is a comprehensive manual for anybody reaching the end of life, and for their caring friends, relatives, advocates, and caretakers. The author, an Episcopal priest, describes in detail the formidable challenges faced by those who wish to avoid months or years of painful treatment after they no...
The Empty Bedroom
The Story of One Women's Loss and Spiritual Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
The devastation of losing a child never quite goes away.No matter how many years separate us from the tragedy, the heartache always looms, often returning in waves, to crush and paralyze us once more. Yet at some point in the sustained nightmare of grappling with the sense of pointlessness that...
Belongings
What to do with your loved one's letters and...
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This book seeks to understand the connection bereaved people have with their loved one's personal belongings.It discusses a simple method of keeping only the items that recall the happy moments spent together with family and friends.It offers suggestions on ways to display keepsakes and photos to create...
by Jan Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
With foreword by journalist Robert Peston
When Jan Robinson's husband died suddenly and unexpectedly, she had the idea of asking any other widows, whenever and wherever she met them, for two tips about how to deal with widowhood. From this advice, she constructed her beautiful first volume,...
Bereaved Parents and their Continuing Bonds
Love after Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
For bereaved parents the development of a continuing bond with the child who has died is a key element in their grieving and in how they manage the future. Using her experience of working in a children's hospital as a counsellor with bereaved parents, Catherine Seigal looks at how continuing bonds...