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by Susanne E. Levi
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
First let me say that I never, in my worst nightmare, would have wanted to write a book on this subject. But because I did have the worst thing happen to me in my life, I wanted to let people who have never experienced the loss of a child have a better understanding of what life is like for the parents,...
Healing a Friend's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas for Helping Someone You Love Through Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say-or what not to say-to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches that...
The Unique Grief of Suicide
Questions and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Praise for The Unique Grief of Suicide: Questions and Hope
A gem of a book. Tom Smith is one of those unique human beings who, through a labor of love and generosity, is able to turn a personal tragedy into an opportunity to reach out and help many others. His work combines scientific data...
by Tony Farrington
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
After a handsome young farmer, Scott Guy, was murdered in the driveway leading from his farmhouse outside the sleepy town of Feilding, near the bottom of New Zealand’s North Island, on 8 July, 2010, the crime quickly became one of the most sensational in the country’s criminal history. It had...
Loss and Grief
A Guide for Human Services Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2002
This edited volume explores the wide range of practice situations across the human services in which issues loss and grief are likely to be important. It also extends understandings of loss and grief beyond death-related losses, encompassing new developments in the theoretical literature. Addressing...
by Annie Pearl Asher
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Twenty years ago I went to the funeral of a friend I admired and respected. The sadness I felt prompted me to write the fictional story "One More Time," in Part Two of this book; it's the ideal friendship between two friends who were inseparable. Over three decades ago I wrote "The...
Jolt
Stories of Trauma and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The death of a child. Life-threatening illness. Plane crashes. Terror attacks. Natural disasters. Some of us never fully recover from unimaginable traumas like these, but some not only survive—they bounce back to thrive and grow.
Jolt tells the stories of people transformed by trauma, and...
Smell the Blue Sky
young, pregnant, and widowed
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
The day Valerie found out she was pregnant with her second child was the day her husband died. He’d fallen asleep driving. She didn’t know how to be a widow. Widows were old, with bunions. Not 26, and pregnant. She moved cross-country from Massachusetts to Oregon, delivered her baby, and sought...
Alone Again
Coping with the Loss of a Partner
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
The death of a life partner is not only heartbreaking but can mean the loved one left behind has to forge a whole new future - often alone. In Alone Again, author Dawn Cawley reveals the grief and trauma she experienced when she lost her beloved husband Alan to cancer and became a reluctant member...
by Rosemary Pavey-Snell
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
When Rosemary Pavey-Snells husband died of cancer, her world was shattered. Despite being a counsellor and psychotherapist herself, she had no way to prepare for something so terrible.
But she remembered what her husband, Allan, always used to say before going to bed: It will be all right in...
by Basia Bonkowski
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
This is the remarkable account of the last days of one womans life. As author Basia Bonkowski gathers with her brothers to watch over their mother as she lies in hospital, she gradually unravels the threads that have formed the rich tapestry of her mothers life and her own. As a girl her mother fled...
Helping People with Developmental Disabilities Mourn
Practical Rituals for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Frequently, people with developmental disabilities are excluded from bereavement ceremonies when a loved one or friend dies, therefore not receiving the special care needed for comprehending their own feelings of loss. Focusing on creating mourning rituals for special needs people, this guide offers...
Coming to Grief
A Survival Guide to Grief and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
A survival guide to grief and loss We experience grief and loss for many reasons: death, separation, divorce, redundancy, illness and through many other major life changes. Pam Heaney's thorough and perceptive exploration of grief is a book that will truly help us help ourselves and others.Sensible,...
The Green Burial Guidebook
Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
The author is an eco-advocate mortician who has been featured for her innovative work in People, AARP, and Ladies' Home Journal
Answers all the practical questions on how to actually perform a green burial; includes a resource guide of green cemeteries
Guides both those with a recently...