Bereavement category: 2356 books
The Widowed Self
The Older Woman’s Journey through Widowhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
How do older women come to terms with widowhood? Are they vulnerable or courageous, predictable or creative in dealing with this life challenge?
Most books about widows usually focus on younger women; this book interweaves the voices of older widows their experiences and insights to show how...
by Robert Orfali
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The book every mortal should read. Orfali approaches this agonizing subject with common sense informed by extensive research and an acute sensitivity to the dilemmas faced by dying patients and their families and doctors. The result is a thought-provoking contribution to the debate over this explosive...
by Ashley Davis Bush
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
“Compassionate, poignant, and practical. . . . Transcending Loss will be a great blessing on your lifetime journey of recovery.”—Harold Bloomfield, MD, psychiatrist and author of How to Survive the Loss of Love and How to Heal Depression
Death doesn’t end a relationship, it simply forges...
by Sean Davison
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Eighty-four years old and terminally ill with cancer, psychiatrist Pat Ferguson wants nothing more than for her life, which no longer brings her joy, to be over. But when her ailing body refuses to let go, she asks her son Sean to do the unthinkable: to help her to die. Before We Say Goodbye is Sean...
Elige no tener miedo
Cómo aprender a vivir después de un gran dolor
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Elaborar un duelo no es tarea sencilla, algunos quieren entender el proceso fríamente, otros optan por seguir al corazón y entregarse a todos los sentimientos y emociones que de la pérdida se generan. Pero hay un tercer grupo, aquellos que deciden que lo que están viviendo no los va a destruir,...
by Gaby Pérez Islas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Todos los viajes son espacios de reflexión, de experiencia, de descubrimiento. Antes de emprender una aventura, es necesario que empaques una maleta, que elijas qué y cuánto cargar; en el trayecto admirarás paisajes insólitos y cuando por fin alcances tu destino conocerás el lugar y, más importante...
The Wilderness of Suicide Grief
Finding Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Presenting the idea of wilderness as a sustained metaphor for grief, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to the grief felt by those who have experienced the suicide of a loved one and offers information about coping with such a profound loss. Likening the death of a loved...
The Journey Through Grief
Reflections on Healing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
This spiritual companion for mourners affirms their need to mourn and invites them to journey through their very unique and personal grief. Detailed are the six needs that all mourners must yield to and eventually embrace if they are to go on to find continued meaning in life and living, including...
Companioning the Bereaved
A Soulful Guide for Counselors & Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Renowned author and educator Alan Wolfelt redefines the role of the grief counselor in this guide for caregivers. His new model for "companioning" the bereaved gives a viable alternative to the limitations of the medical establishment, encouraging counselors and other caregivers to aspire...
Protecting Children from Violence
Evidence-Based Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Providing an evidence-based understanding of the causes and consequences of violence against children, experts in the field examine the best practices used to help protect children from violence. Various types of violence are reviewed including physical and sexual abuse, (cyber-)bullying, human trafficking,...
The Grief Club
The Secret to Getting Through All Kinds of Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
The Grief Club is Melody Beattie's profoundly personal, powerfully healing book to help readers through life's most difficult times.
Part memoir, part self-help book, part journalism, The Grief Club is a book of stories bound together by the human experience of loss in its many forms such as...
The Lessons of Love
Rediscovering Our Passion for Live When It All Seems Too Hard to Take
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The timeless, magical story of one woman's return to life and love when she thought she had lost it all.
Break Ups Suck
A Girl's Guide to Surviving a Break Up
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
If you’re reading this, it’s probably safe to assume you've recently had a break up. Whether you were the “dumpee” or “dumper”, you’re probably overwhelmed with a variety of emotions that are proving hard to sort out. With this kind of life altering event, these feelings aren’t easily...
All the Dead Yale Men
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Originally published in 1982 to wide acclaim, The Good Son remains Craig Nova’s undisputed masterpiece. This classic explored the complicated entanglements of fathers and sons -expressed in the story of nouvue-riche father Pop Mackinnon, who used his wealth to manipulate his son Chip into the right’...