Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Grief & Loss

A perfect series for both adults and children who are recovering from trauma, or for therapists to use with their patients. A tragic event causes a mama bird to leave her baby birds. Feathers, one of her baby birds, grows up feeling lonely and abandoned and begins to search for something to fill the hole in his heart. Feathers' search is one so many of us have experienced-how to feel complete when we have a deep sense of aloneness. Will Feathers find something to fill the hole in his heart? Will he ever be truly happy again? Feathers is Book 4 of the heart-warming and thought-provoking...

The Of Love and Sound Mind short story collection brings us into the lives of wounded women and girls as they try to reconcile the collateral damage of mental illness, the psychic traumas of divorce, the makeup of hallucination, the echoes of unanswered grief, the crippling violence of family secrets and the trauma of embedded racism.

In What Happened, an eight year old girl bears frightened witness to her mother's first psychotic break.

In Things Happen, there's been an accident and Stella has to get to her husband. The problem? Stella's mother is damn...

A Short Course in Happiness After Loss brings to us a powerful intersection of the science of positive psychology and the wisdom necessary to thrive when facing life's harshest moments. In poetic, compassionate and yet fearless language, Sirois traverses the territories we most fear--death, exile, disease--and carefully lights pathways toward a happiness that includes the scars of our suffering and the bounty and goodness present within our world. Her work offers each of us, no matter the trials of our lives, a template for rising through pain into a steady, resilient and open heart, one...

Terrie Curry spent many years as a financial analyst working in a world of numbers. Yet an inner questioning had always moved her to explore the limits beyond linear thinking. It was her experiences volunteering with hospice patients, and then an amazing encounter with a miraculous little boy, where Curry gained insight into this realm beyond our everyday comprehension. Those very experiences aided her through her husband's health crisis and death; the power of our connection beyond words guided her through the loss and its aftermath. She writes now to share her quest for insight, and to...