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A Special Scar: The Experiences of People Bereaved by Suicide
ISBN: 9780415824675 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every 85 minutes someone in the UK takes their own life and the suicide rate is currently the highest since 2004. Society often reacts with unease, fear and even disapproval but what happens to those bereaved by a self-inflicted death? The reasons leading someone to take their own life are complex, and the bereavement reactions of survivors of suicide can also be complex, including shame, guilt, sadness and the effects of trauma, stigma and social isolation. It can be difficult for those personally affected by a suicide death to come to terms with their loss and seek help and support. A...
Every 85 minutes someone in the UK takes their own life and the suicide rate is currently the highest since 2004. Society often reacts with unease, f...
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Rituals for Life, Love, and Loss
ISBN: 9780897936712 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the joy of naming a child or blessing a home to the sadness of ending a marriage or the dignity of a simple funeral, here are the words and settings needed to value and commemorate life's transitions and milestones. Rituals for Life, Love, and Loss provides rituals and meditations for today's world, for times of celebration and commitment, for new beginnings, and for periods of grief. Dorothy McRae-McMahon, internationally renowned for her work with ritual, has created meaningful ceremonies for all people, regardless of their faith. Presented in three parts -- Celebrations,...
From the joy of naming a child or blessing a home to the sadness of ending a marriage or the dignity of a simple funeral, here are the words and setti...
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Unforgettable Faces & Stories: Dedications: Dads and Daughters (Daughters Remembering Their Dads Who Served in the Military)
ISBN: 9780989028837 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Were you "Daddy's Little Girl"? Did you share that special relationship with your Dad? Did your Dad serve in the military and not talk much about it, or perhaps not at all? You need to read these personal stories from women who grew up sometimes never hearing or knowing about their dad's service in the military/war. Never hearing names of their buddies or even knowing where they fought til after they have died. Perhaps they saw their buddy die by their side or fought in bloody battles that they wanted to forget. These are all very special stories of ordinary Dads that served and were...
Were you "Daddy's Little Girl"? Did you share that special relationship with your Dad? Did your Dad serve in the military and not talk much about it, ...
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Unforgettable Faces & Stories: Keepsakes: Treasures from the Heart (a Collection of Personal Photos & Stories of Cherished Memories!)
ISBN: 9780989028844 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We all have something that reminds us of someone we loved and lost. Our lives are so busy today and we are running around and always in a hurry. Sometimes we stop quickly...we never know when we will see it...and then we spot it, we stop in our tracks. It may be a vase that we have in our home and walk by it every day, a picture on the wall, an old wine bottle, a medal, a piece of jewelry, an old tea pot, a chair, or a chandelier hanging from the ceiling, something that reminds us or brings us back to a memory of a friend, a parent, a brother or sister, or husband or wife. That special...
We all have something that reminds us of someone we loved and lost. Our lives are so busy today and we are running around and always in a hurry. Somet...
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Blackbird Fly! a Mother's Story of Grief, Love and Hope
ISBN: 9781481929233 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early morning hours of Christmas Day, December 25, 2010 Judy Myers was awakened by her daughter, Carroll, frantically knocking at the front door. Once inside Carroll broke the unexpected and tragic new that her brother, Judy's only son, had died suddenly of a massive heart attack leaving a wife and two very young children. This book is an offering to those who suffer from grief over the loss of a loved one, particularly a mother's loss of a child. It is Judy's journey during he first two years following Grey's death taking the reader from that Christmas Day through Christmas two years...
In the early morning hours of Christmas Day, December 25, 2010 Judy Myers was awakened by her daughter, Carroll, frantically knocking at the front doo...
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turning 44: ...living beyond his years
ISBN: 9781484197974 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grief is nothing to be ashamed of and not every loss is something we can just "get over." The truth is that not all grief dissipates. Yes, our sadness softens over time but not always before it changes us or takes on a life of its own. In this wry and raw memoir, "turning 44," Melissa Collier delivers a poignant tribute about gratitude and grief and the life that happens in between. Rejecting the natural stages of grief, Collier chooses instead to wear her loss as a badge of honor and an outright refusal to allow her father to be forgotten simply because he died an early death. Infused with...
Grief is nothing to be ashamed of and not every loss is something we can just "get over." The truth is that not all grief dissipates. Yes, our sadness...
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What My Dad's Death from ALS Taught Me
ISBN: 9781482733365 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Death as in money can cause loved ones to lose focus on the one needing peace and continuity the most. In this book a father yet again offers lessons of grace and dignity while a family struggles internally with one another and themselves not realizing their focus should be on the loved one they are losing and those remaining. Several years later, forgiveness enters and embraces the author. She only hopes others can learn from her families mistakes and misunderstandings.
Death as in money can cause loved ones to lose focus on the one needing peace and continuity the most. In this book a father yet again offers lessons ...
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Coping with Death in the Family
ISBN: 9781550210767 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A common sense guide for all age groups on how to live with the loss of a loved one." Dr. Gerald Schneiderman is on the staff of the Department of Psychiatry at the Hospital for Sick Children and is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Toronto. His long term interest in fatal metabolic disease within the family and his work on the consequences of the death of a child within the family have led him to his present involvement with the research group studying the treatment of bereavement. "The book is far from frightening, rather a... "A common sense guide for all age groups on how to live with the loss of a loved one." Dr. Gerald Schneiderman is on the staff of the Depar... |
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From We to Me, My First Year of Being a Widow Shared in Letters to a Friend
ISBN: 9781614931607 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sharing her first year of being a widow, Maryann writes weekly letters to a beloved friend who recently lost her husband. She relates how the celebration of holidays and special occasions influenced her life. Told with poignant acknowledgement of her faith and emotions, the stories speak about the end of a love story and the beginning of a new way of living. Though this is not a "how to " book on grief, she does explain the challenges, experiences, decisions and finally acceptance that changed the life she had known for thirty-two years of marriage. With love, she guides her friend through 52...
Sharing her first year of being a widow, Maryann writes weekly letters to a beloved friend who recently lost her husband. She relates how the celebrat...
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Forty Days Off Facebook
ISBN: 9780989246040 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Death, divorce and dysfunction were ripping apart author Ryan Beale's life and tormenting his fragile state of mind. During one random evening while he sat reflecting in his downtown Chicago apartment he decided to set a goal for himself: to hit the master reset button in his life. However, he had one seemingly innocent distraction that kept him from confronting the wounds that were breaking his heart and mind. The next forty days, which started as a therapeutic experiment, turned into a monumental life-changing experience. Ryan challenges himself to look deeper within his being than ever...
Death, divorce and dysfunction were ripping apart author Ryan Beale's life and tormenting his fragile state of mind. During one random evening while h...
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A Journey of Grace: A Story of Redemption and Hope
ISBN: 9781482789553 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty-three years ago, I was a complete and utter wreck after the devastating and tragic loss of my nine-year-old son. Life was simply not worth living anymore...that is until God intervened. This is my story of how God and I have partnered together these last two decades to bring wholeness and healing into my life. At first, I wrestled intently with my Maker before I surrendered everything unto His care. This book covers various steps that I took in joining God to bring healing to my broken heart. He has given me beauty for ashes and replaced my deep sorrow with joy. It is my hope that all...
Twenty-three years ago, I was a complete and utter wreck after the devastating and tragic loss of my nine-year-old son. Life was simply not worth livi...
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Somewhere Between Ezekiel and Miss Havisham: 365 Days at the Cemetery
ISBN: 9780615583303 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A book to help those who have lost a loved one through their grief. Humor, faith, literature, and cemetery visits were a formula for recovery. Sometimes grief requires perspective. Sometimes grief needs faith. Sometimes grief needs a way to deal with the unwittingly insensitive around us. And sometimes grief needs a little laughter. Knowing how to find all of these during the grief process is the treasure within this book. Different from any book on grief, this one seizes the sorrow by the collar and challenges it, "Not here. Not now. Go away."
A book to help those who have lost a loved one through their grief. Humor, faith, literature, and cemetery visits were a formula for recovery. Sometim...
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Memoir of Mourning: Journey through Grief and Loss to Renewal
ISBN: 9780991962020 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We find it hard to talk about death and mourning in our contemporary culture. It isn't just our parents that we're losing. Spouse, colleague, neighbor, so many of our friends are dying. In Memoir of Mourning: journey through grief and loss to renewal, Claudia describes with perception, courage and compassion, the stages on her journey from her bedside vigil as her mother lay dying, through her months of deep sorrow as she mourned, to her eventual acknowledgement that she has reached a new, more hopeful place in her life. Her experiences have the power to guide and inform our lives as we care...
We find it hard to talk about death and mourning in our contemporary culture. It isn't just our parents that we're losing. Spouse, colleague, neighbor...
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The Night the Angels Came
ISBN: 9780007442621 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass. When Cathy receives a call about a terminally ill widower terrified of leaving his son all alone in the world, she is wracked with sadness and indecision. Can she risk exposing her own young children to a little boy on the brink of bereavement? Eight year old Michael is part of a family of two, but with his beloved father given only months to live and his mother having died when he was a toddler, he could soon become an orphan. Will Cathy's own young family be able to handle a child in mourning?... A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass. When Cathy receives a call about a terminally ill widower t... |
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Death in the Victorian Family
ISBN: 9780198208327 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This engrossing book explores family experiences of dying, death, grieving, and mourning in the years between 1830 and 1920. So many Victorian letters, diaries, and death memorials reveal a deep preoccupation with death which is both fascinating and enlightening. Pat Jalland has examined the correspondence, diaries, and death memorials of fifty-five families to show us deathbed scenes of the time, good and bad deaths, the roles of medicine and religion, children's deaths, funerals and cremations, widowhood, and mourning rituals.
This engrossing book explores family experiences of dying, death, grieving, and mourning in the years between 1830 and 1920. So many Victorian letters...
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How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness: Supportive, Practical Advice from a Leading Child Life Specialist
ISBN: 9780312697686 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness has become the standard work on an important subject. A classic for over fifteen years, it continues to be a go-to book for supportive, practical advice, based on the lifetime experience and clinical practice of one of America 's leading child life practitioners. Fully revised and updated, this new edition also explores the major issues and developments from the last decade that affect children today, including the dangers and opportunities of the Internet, a deeper understanding of how hereditary diseases affect... How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness has become the standard work on an important subject. A classic for over fifteen yea... |
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Death, Gender and Ethnicity
ISBN: 9780415146791 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Death, Gender and Ethnicity examines the ways in which gender and ethnicity shape the experiences of dying and bereavement, taking as its focus the diversity of ways through which the universal event of death is encountered. It brings together accounts of how these experiences are actually managed with analyses of a range of representations of dying and grieving in order to provide a more theoretical approach to the relationship between death, gender and ethnicity.
Though death and dying have been an increasingly important focus for academics and clinicians over the last thirty... Death, Gender and Ethnicity examines the ways in which gender and ethnicity shape the experiences of dying and bereavement, taking as its foc...
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The Dead Mother: The Work of Andre Green
ISBN: 9780415165297 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text brings together essays in honour of Andre Green to develop the theme of his most famous paper of the same title. The concept of the dead mother refers to the process of mourning that takes place in the child following maternal depression, when the child experiences the loss of love. The contributors, drawn from different professional backgrounds, reflect on this concept and how it contributes to other psychic syndromes. The book should be of interest to those pursuing psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic approaches to grief, loss and depression.
This text brings together essays in honour of Andre Green to develop the theme of his most famous paper of the same title. The concept of the dead mot...
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When a Baby Dies: The Experience of Late Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death
ISBN: 9780415252768 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every year in the UK over 10,000 babies die before birth or shortly afterwards. For the parents, the grief is hard to bear. In this book, parents who have lost a baby tell their stories. They speak about what happened, how they felt, how they have been helped by others and how they helped themselves.
Using letters from and interviews with many bereaved parents, Nancy Kohner and Alix Henley have written a book which offers understanding of what it means to lose a baby and the grief that follows. When a Baby Dies also contains valuable information about why a baby dies, hospital... Every year in the UK over 10,000 babies die before birth or shortly afterwards. For the parents, the grief is hard to bear. In this book, parents who ...
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Grief, Loss and Bereavement: Evidence and Practice for Health and Social Care Practitioners
ISBN: 9780415467513 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dealing with the social experience of grief, loss and bereavement are challenging areas for everyone, including health and social care practitioners who are often well placed to offer help and support to the bereaved. This book draws together a comprehensive range of worldwide evidence for understanding and supporting the bereaved in a variety of health and social care contexts. It can be used by practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds in both health and social care to gain an appreciation of bereavement and its associated support and care. Additionally, it can be used for personal... Dealing with the social experience of grief, loss and bereavement are challenging areas for everyone, including health and social care practitioner... |
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