Relationship Loss Grief

This is a book of stories and inspiration. And it’s a little more than that. It’s a collaboration of 25 end-of-life experts, coaches, healers, therapists, and practitioners who’ve trained in modalities to assist the dying, and their caregivers. This is a powerful book with glimpses into what’s next for us. It’s a collection of brave authors who share, not only what death means to them, but how life has changed with their deeper understanding.

Pet stvari za kojima ljudi zale na samrti: uvidi koji ce promijeniti vas zivot! Sto je u konacnici bilo vrijedno u nasem zivotu, kad jednog dana podvucemo crtu? Na samrtnoj postelji, kad nam postane jasno da se zivot blizi svome kraju? Nakon brojnih putovanja diljem svijeta, u potrazi za smislom zivota, Australka Bronnie Ware prihvatila se teskog zadatka. Provest ce vrijeme uz umiruce u posljednjim tjednima njihova zivota. U svojoj knjizi govori o predivnim susretima i dirljivim razgovorima sto su iz temelja promijenili njezin zivot.

When Clare Mackintosh lost her five-week-old son, she soon discovered there are no neat, labeled stages of grief like so many books insist. The shape of each loss is different; when a parent, relative, or friend passes, we grieve the person in all their beauty, their humanity, their imperfections. For Clare, there was no preparing for the anger and excruciating ache of knowing her child's life would remain unlived. This is the book she needed then.

Esta obra comparte respuestas efectivas a las inquietudes más frecuentes cuando vivimos la muerte o desaparición de un ser amado, y brinda una guía insuperable y desmitificadora de las percepciones tradicionales relacionadas con el fallecimiento de un ser muy cercano, el propósito es hacernos comprender que el duelo no se supera: se aprende a vivir con la ausencia, además, sí podemos llorarle y hablar con nuestro ser querido en cualquier momento si esto afirma una relación simbólica marcada por el amor y el entendimiento

In his book, The Gift of a Broken Heart, Bryan Welch movingly recounts his own journey through deep grief at the loss of his 25-year-old son to addiction. In searing detail, the book describes the pain of parents trying to grapple with an adult child’s mental illness and, finally, his death in the throes of the disease.

As a psychologist and child psychoanalyst, Dr. Masur has helped many children recognize and express their feelings after loss. In How Children Grieve, Masur shares her expertise with caregivers of all kinds, giving them the tools they need to help a child or teenager to mourn, to move forward, and to make meaning of terrible loss.

Your Soul Focus is a spiritual book written in a practical way. It unfolds my journey and what I’ve learned through my relatives on the other side, chapter by chapter, containing personal stories and anecdotes applicable to daily life. After understanding that the afterlife is existent, I learned how intricate and extensive our souls and our journeys are. It’s fascinating!

After 30 years of battling obesity and struggling with her finances, Elizabeth Benton transformed herself. She lost 150 pounds, eliminated $130,000 of debt, and committed herself to guiding other women through their own transformations. Her inspiring story and methodologies have touched millions of lives.

As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan didn't offer sermons or prayers unless they were requested; in fact, she found, the dying rarely want to talk about God, at least not overtly. Instead she discovered she'd been granted an invaluable chance to witness firsthand what she calls the "spiritual work of dying" - the work of finding or making meaning of one's life, the experiences it's contained, and the people who have touched it, the betrayals, wounds, unfinished business, and unrealized dreams.

Want to learn more about caring for someone at end of life? Discover the End of Life Guideline Series by Barbara Karnes. It is a compilation of five of our most popular hospice and palliative care books that prepares its listeners for the natural, normal process of dying and grief. The series includes, A Time to Live: Living with a Life Threatening Illness, for the newly diagnosed facing a life limiting illness. It addresses issues of comfort, nutrition, and sleep as they relate to the palliative care patient.

For over 12 years, Joel Martin documented evidence of Anderson's powers - the ability to reach "the other side" - and repeatedly astonished believers and skeptics. This is the book of those universal visions, the inspiring messages of hope, truth, and peace, and a glimpse into eternity to answers to the unfathomable questions about life and death.

In this remarkably useful guide, widow, author, and therapist Genevieve Davis Ginsburg, MS, offers fellow widows - as well as their families and friends - sage advice for coping with the loss of their husbands. From learning to travel and eat alone to creating new routines to surviving the holidays and anniversaries that reopen emotional wounds, Widow to Widow walks listeners through the challenges of widowhood and encourages them on their paths to building new lives.

A 29-year-old son and only child passes. He nudges his mother to open up to spirit so she can build a new relationship with him. Letters to David unlocks a door to spirit and offers hope for parents who have suffered tragic grief. There is an immediacy and accessibility to Claudia and David's relationship that provides laughter, tears, and hope to those grieving what they see as the "end" of a relationship. Enclosed, you will find valuable tools for healing and growth. We don't die, and our loved ones remain with us forever.

La vida nos enfrenta a muchas pérdidas: desde objetos a los que tenemos apego, mudanzas o cambios de trabajo hasta enfermedades, trastornos alimentarios, adicciones, suicidios o la muerte de un ser querido. No cargues esa pesada maleta de duelos no resueltos y resentimientos; confronta la tristeza y sana las heridas que marcan tu vida. Este es un manual directo y práctico de sanación y crecimiento. Este es un audiolibro que te alentará a encontrar tranquilidad y vivir con intensidad, responsabilidad y sentido.

In Life After Death, Chopra draws on cutting-edge scientific discoveries and the great wisdom traditions to provide a map of the afterlife. It's a fascinating journey into many levels of consciousness. But far more important is his urgent message: Who you meet in the afterlife and what you experience there reflect your present beliefs, expectations, and level of awareness. In the here and now you can shape what happens after you die.

Austen Years is a deeply felt and sensitive examination of a writer’s relationship to reading, and to her own family, winding together memoir, criticism, and biographical and historical material about Austen herself. And like the sequence of Austen’s novels, the scope of Austen Years widens successively, with each chapter following one of Austen's novels. We begin with Cohen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she raises her small children and contemplates her father’s last letter.

Emotional depression leading to suicide can work the same way. Sometimes, a person can be treated so that, in effect, they are cured; sometimes, they can’t ever really be cured but can be treated in a way that they can live with the disease for their whole life. And sometimes, just as with certain kinds of cancer, the disease is untreatable, unstoppable, and no intervention by anyone or anything can halt its advance. It eventually kills the person, and there is nothing anyone can do. Thus, Ronald Rolheiser begins this small, powerful book.

The death of an adult child is a profound and devastating experience, shattering the hearts of parents and leaving them in a labyrinth of grief. In this compassionate and deeply moving guide, you will find solace, understanding, and practical advice to navigate the journey of grief and healing. "How to Survive the Death of an Adult Child" offers a lifeline to those grappling with this unimaginable loss. Through heartfelt stories, expert insights, and healing strategies, this book provides a comprehensive roadmap to cope with profound sorrow and find a way to embrace life once again.

When people hear the word acceptance, they might assume that it means being OK with what happened in the past or with how things currently are. In fact, there is a difference between acceptance and 'feeling good' about what happened—acceptance means allowing yourself to feel whatever emotions naturally come up in response to what you are going through. It means acknowledging the reality of the pain, even though in an ideal world, it shouldn't be that way.

In the Absence of the Ordinary frames our current era as a rough initiation—an upending experience of profound trauma and transformation that demands we reorient our ways of thinking, being, and relating. Through essays like “Some People Wake Up…,” “The Gift of Restraint,” and “Gratitude for All That Is,” Weller offers clarity and wisdom on how to face the sobering stakes of our time—while offering the nourishment and support we need to embody the new roles this initiation requires.