Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Grief & Loss

When we lose someone close, it's easy to feel unmoored. We need to find a new rhythm to our days and new ways to connect to the ones we've lost. Ashley Davis Bush wrote this book to offer you just that: small doses of comfort and hope for getting through your day when you are still heavy with grief. Each bite-sized reading offers reassurance that healing is possible, whether it's an ordinary day of living with loss or a special anniversary day. Poetic words, combined with photographic images throughout the book, help provide solace along with the perspective that love always transcends...

For anyone seeking renewal and restoration during life's transitions and after deep loss, Hope, Make, Heal offers a unique approach to healing: using one's hands to mend the heart. The twenty craft projects provide ways to make tangible objects that signify the qualities one seeks on a healing path: strength, calm, release, and hope. Full of gentle encouragement, each project is easy to make and suitable for those times when our...

The phone rings - your breath falls away - and each moment becomes a lifetime. The death of someone significant in your world can rewrite the scope and breadth of who you are. But in this exact moment of decisions, questions, family stress, and legalities, what do you do first and how do you cope? When author Claire M. Schwartz lost her mother suddenly when she was 24, she experienced this exact thought process. But with all the misinformation out there about Grief & Loss, and without tools that actually made her feel better, she fell apart. After 20+ years on her healing journey, and over...

"Hope and Healing During the Holidays" has been written for anyone in bereavement. If you are suffering with grief after losing a loved one, this book can help you.

Your loss may have been recent or many years ago. You may have lost someone to death, a separation, or divorce. Maybe you are coping with loss due to the death of a spouse, a parent, a sibling or maybe grieving after losing a child.

Sometimes the grieving process can be even harder during the holidays. This book focuses on giving you many thoughtful insights and helpful...

Over forty thousand Americans die by suicide every year, with untold more around the world; each one results in a life sentence of heartbreak for family and friends. The survivor's journey is a tumultuous one that challenges our friendships, our fears, and even our future. Where do we go from here? How do we survive such a devastating, senseless act? While each loss is as unique as one's own fingerprint, and grief tools aren't one-size-fits-all, it's important to know you are not alone. This book is like your own portable support group, open 24/7. It offers an intimate collection of...

Part of the 5-star book series, Grief Diaries: Surviving Loss of a Child shares the poignant journeys of mothers seeking healing and hope after losing a child.

Offering 22 firsthand accounts of the aftermath including facing the holidays, sorting our child's belongings, navigating birthdays and death anniversaries and more, readers who share the same path will find comfort and compassion, family and friends will gain better understanding, and professionals will appreciate the rich spectrum of journeys narrated by mothers from around the world. Learn more at...

Part of the 5-star book series, Grief Diaries: Surviving Loss of a Loved One features the journeys of women seeking to find hope and healing in the aftermath of losing a grandparent, uncles, nieces, cousins, best friends, stepmothers, and more. Exploring the impact on daily life, Grief Diaries: Surviving Loss of a Loved One offers firsthand accounts revealing the different ways we face the holidays, handle belongings, the impact on health, relationships and more.

Readers who share the same path will find comfort and compassion, family and friends will gain better...

Fascinating true stories about after-death communication and the power of love.

Grief Diaries creator Lynda Cheldelin Fell dreamed of her daughter's death two years before it happened. When the nightmare came true in 2009, she watched her deceased grandmother guide her daughter safely to heaven. Despite the shock of her tragic loss, Lynda's experience brought tremendous comfort to her broken heart. But her incident is far from unique. Bonnie's deceased father smiled and winked at her before disappearing behind a building. Mary saw her deceased mother's eyes in the face of a...

The academic study of aging has flourished in recent decades, along with the growth in the aging population of the U.S. and other advanced nations. However, there are several reasons why a more contemporary edited volume on aging and the life course is invaluable: first, much of the published research in the past was conceived and conducted before the implications of the large "baby boomer" cohorts of the post WWII period could be known. This diverse group, numbering some 80 million, has altered not only the demographic structure of the U.S. (whose older population will soon constitute...

The academic study of aging has flourished in recent decades, along with the growth in the aging population of the U.S. and other advanced nations. However, there are several reasons why a more contemporary edited volume on aging and the life course is invaluable: first, much of the published research in the past was conceived and conducted before the implications of the large "baby boomer" cohorts of the post WWII period could be known. This diverse group, numbering some 80 million, has altered not only the demographic structure of the U.S. (whose older population will soon constitute...