Bereavement category: 2356 books
by Diane Rehm
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio host speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson’s) of her husband of fifty-four years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him.
With John gone, Diane was indeed “on her own,” coping with the inevitable...
Jane Brody's Guide to the Great Beyond
A Practical Primer to Help You and Your Loved Ones Prepare Medically, Legally, and Emotionally for the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
From the beloved New York Times columnist, trusted authority on health, and bestselling author comes this complete guide to everything you need to know–emotionally, spiritually, and practically–to prepare for the end of life.
An invaluable road map to putting your affairs in order–or...
No Time to Say Goodbye
Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Suicide would appear to be the last taboo. Even incest is now discussed freely in popular media, but the suicide of a loved one is still an act most people are unable to talk about--or even admit to their closest family or friends. This is just one of the many painful and paralyzing truths author...
Without My Mum
A Daughter's Guide to Grief, Loss and Reclaiming Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
When Leigh Van Der Horst lost her beloved mother to cancer in 2008, she faced her biggest battle yet. In Without My Mum, she invites us on a journey that is at times heartbreaking, others heartwarming, but ultimately comforting and inspiring. With warmth and candour, Leigh tells of her transformative...
The Five Ways We Grieve
Finding Your Personal Path to Healing after the Loss of a Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In this new approach to understanding the impact of grief, Susan A. Berger goes beyond the commonly held theories of stages of grief with a new typology for self-awareness and personal growth*.* She offers practical advice for healing from a major loss in this presentation of five basic ways, or types,...
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart
Surviving the Death of Your Baby
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The heartache of miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death affects thousands of U.S. families every year. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart, Third Edition offers reassurance to parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair during and after such a tragedy. In this new and updated edition, Deborah Davis...
The Party of Your Life
Get the Funeral You Want by Planning It Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
The Party of Your Life is a lively, irreverent guide to putting the F-U-N back in funeral. This upbeat book will appeal to adults of all ages who want a send-off that reflects their interests, achievements, and taste.
The Party of Your Life will help readers explore the full range of creative,...
Seven Steps for Handling Grief
Because You Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
“Let me know if there is anything I can do.” This well-meaning offer is frequently expressed when a relative or friend suffers a death or other heart-wrenching loss such as divorce, termination of a job, having to put a parent in a nursing home or Alzheimer’s facility, loss of one’s home,...
Exit Laughing
How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
There’s nothing funny about dying … or is there? Malachy McCourt, Jacquelyn Mitchard, and 22 more share hilarious and moving stories of confronting death. Exit Laughing makes death more approachable as it reveals the funny side of “passing on.” As painful as it is to lose a loved one, *Exit...
Softening the Grief
What to Say and Do to Comfort a Bereaved Mother
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Ease the Pain of Losing a Child
Softening the Grief is both a companion for grieving mothers so they know they are not alone and a resource for people who want to be caring but are afraid they will say the wrong thing.
This book provides the right things to say and do.
Learn what...
The Choice
Finding Life in the Face of Adversity -- Six Stories from a Therapist's Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Now available in paperback -- Jan Hatanaka's powerful, life-enhancing book on how six people, encountering significant adversity, made a conscious choice to work to build a life of meaning.
Using six stories from her casebook as a therapist, Hatanaka explores and illustrates the complex relationships...
Using the Power of Hope to Cope with Dying
The Four Stages of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Introducing Cathleen Fanslow's ""Hope System,"" which incorporates the four stages of hope (hope for cure, for treatment, for prolongation of life, and for peaceful death), this book shows both the living and the dying how to use the power of hope to cope with the inevitable. This powerful and simple...
Holding Back The Tears
Facing up to the fact your child has died.
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
Facing up to the fact your child has died......... Bereavement loss of a child through accident or cot death suicide any other illness's it is a fact of life no one expects their own child to die before they do, don't face it alone The devastion it can cause us is overwhelming and outwith our own...
Because all is not lost
Verse on Grief
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Sweta Srivastava Vikram is a multi-genre writer living in New York City. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in literary journals, online publications, and anthologies across six countries and three continents. Sweta has attended several writing residencies and workshops in the United States and...