Grief category: 2356 books
Prayers, Texts and Tears
A creative response to grief
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
How do we respond to God, our family, and our colleagues when our whole world is shattered by the death of a loved one? For Spoken Word artist Dai Woolridge, there were sometimes no words. In this honest and personal story of grief, Dai offers a creative response to God. Working through a timeline...
The Blessing of Sorrow
Turning Grief into Healing
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Tackling one of life’s greatest mysteries, Rabbi Ben Kamin examines the diverse ways we mourn the death of a loved one. Drawn from his forty-plus years’ of counseling the bereaved, Kamin uses parables and stories to provide thoughtful insights on how to encounter and endure grief. He further stresses...
Grief Diaries
Surviving Loss of a Pregnancy
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Part of the 5-star book series, **Grief Diaries: Surviving Loss of a Pregnancy **features the stories of mothers seeking to find hope and healing in the aftermath of losing first, second, and third trimester pregnancies and stillbirths.
Offering 18 firsthand accounts, readers who share the...
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2014
Are you suffering from the loss of someone close to you right now? I'm sorry. I know it's painful and sad. I had been through before and it really took me a long time to heal.
Grief loss can be very painful, especially if that person is very close to you. Your heart will sink and you have...
Everyday Comfort
Meditations for Seasons of Grief
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
People who are mourning the loss of a dear friend or beloved family member often feel alone, abandoned, and helpless. And those who want to comfort them can feel inadequate and at a loss for words. In Everyday Comfort grievers will find thirty daily devotions to help them through their heartache....
The Depression of Grief
Coping with Your Sadness and Knowing When to Get Help
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Recognizing that depression is a normal and natural component of grief, this compassionate guide helps mourners understand their depression, express it in healing ways, and know when they may be experiencing a more severe or clinical depression that would be eased by professional treatment. It proposes...
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
by Jacqueline Meeks
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Book Summary Grief, loss and ritual are central themes as Jacqueline recounts the pain and suffering of losing a parent, child and spouse. As she decorates the Christmas tree Jacqueline remembers the stories associated with each ornament in her collection endearing you to her family and drawing you...
Give Sorrow Words
A Father's Passage Through Grief
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 1996
When Tom Crider's only child, Gretchen, died in an apartment fire at age twenty-one, there seemed to be no answers to his questions. Now Tom Crider has written the book he searched for in his grief and couldn't find, one that offers--without sermons or certainty--companionship in agony and an exploration...
The Other Side of Sadness
What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
A renowned psychologist reveals the power of human resilience in dealing with grief and loss
The conventional view of grieving--encapsulated by the famous five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance--is defined by a mourning process that we can only hope to accept...
Friend Grief and AIDS:
Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
It's been likened to a plague, but AIDS never had a chance to be just a virus. The second in a series on grieving the death of a friend, Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends revisits a time when people with AIDS were also targets of bigotry and discrimination. In stories about...
Yoga and Grief
A Compassionate Journey Toward Healing
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
After a great loss, the journey toward healing can be a tempestuous one, a fragile balance of light and dark, hope and despair. For many people the practices of yoga can provide a focus on the present moment and a way to restore the balance and energy which we need so urgently in times of stress and...
No Way to Behave at a Funeral
A Tale of Personal Loss through Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This is the story of Noel who lost Maris, his beloved wife of 42 years, to suicide following years of struggling with depression.
The abrupt ending of a life by suicide can be the most catastrophic of events for those left behind. Survivors experience intense pain and massive guilt. Grief banishes...
The End Is Just the Beginning
Lessons in Grieving for African Americans
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A nationally revered minister and certified grief specialist shares words of comfort for Africans Americans in mourning.
Every culture has unique ways of coping with the devastating loss of a loved one, but in some households these important traditions have succumbed to the modern emphasis...