Relationship Loss Grief

When grieving the loss of someone deeply loved, it’s like you’re a vase that has been thrown to the ground, shattered into 1000 pieces and put back together again, only to constantly teeter on the edge of a shelf. Those that don't understand the depth of the pain will say or do something intended to help because the cracks in the vase make them uncomfortable. But, more often than not, those words and actions only make the pain worse for the griever—it's like outsiders push the vase off the shelf and it shatters again.

Written by a registered nurse with over 30 years of experience taking care of terminally ill patients and helping them find comfort and peace as they near their appointed time, Pathway to Heaven Without Fear shares how death is not the final outcome, but a bridge to our new heavenly home. Author Melissa Ralph shares her real experiences in nursing and faith along with comforting scriptures to bring a better understanding of the unknown to listeners looking for a way to draw closer to God.

No one who lives and loves will be immune from grief and trauma. While this suffering is universal, living through a devastating event often leaves people feeling alone and even alienated. Michele Neff Hernandez experienced this when her 39-year-old husband died after being hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Her most transformative realization was that grief changes us. There is no going back or bucking up. Life is now different.

For anyone struggling with the loss of a spouse—anyone whose world has been turned upside down in a way they’ve never encountered before—here is something that could help. Waving Goodbye is a candid, honest, and approachable guide to dealing with the death of a spouse written by a very ordinary guy who has lived through the ordeal.

What does human suffering have to do with God's power and love? Everyone has a "Gethsemane," a place and time in our lives when we face sorrow on the deepest level. To help us understand the relationship and interaction between human suffering and God's power and love, author Leslie Montgomery looks at the details of Jesus' example to show how valuable lessons can be learned through suffering.

As a bank executive, Herb Knoll was known as a man who could get the job done. But when Knoll lost his wife to cancer, he found few resources that could help him recover. The more he learned about the plight of widowers, from high suicide rates to physical and emotional problems, the more he became motivated to create an audiobook with fellow widowers for fellow widowers.

On May 13, 1995, God called Zig Ziglar's oldest daughter, Suzan, home after a prolonged illness. Journeying through his own grief, Ziglar realized many things about himself, his family, his priorities, and God. In this comforting book, he uses his experience to encourage listeners to deal with the reality of loss and learn to take up the threads of life again as they find consolation and inspiration in the giver of all peace.

When Kelsy’s husband, Heath, dies tragically in a sudden accident, she is left grappling with overwhelming grief. But through the pain, she discovers that love transcends even death. Navigating life without the one she thought she’d spend forever with, Kelsy confronts profound loneliness, heartbreak, and the weight of unanswered questions. She struggles to find a way to heal, often feeling lost in the darkness of her sorrow. Through resilience, family and community support, and signs from Heath, Kelsy embarks on a journey of healing–finding hope and connection in the most unexpected places.

As a therapist, Dr. Sherry Walling knew all the “right” things to say to help people through grief. But when she lost her father and her brother within six months of each other, she learned how much our current thinking about grief has to change. In Touching Two Worlds, this trusted expert dares to open the inner workings of her own grief—and in the process, provides a clear map for anyone searching for hope in the aftermath of loss. Whether your loss is recent and sharp or old and familiar, Dr. Walling delivers wise and tender guidance through this new land.

Finding Comfort is a book about easing grief and trauma after unimaginable horrors - mass shootings, catastrophic natural disasters, and terrorist acts. Through personal recollections of responding to tragedy, combined with a practical application, Earl Johnson offers listeners the tools they need to seek support and offer it to those in need. The book walks through the life cycle of disaster care from the first hours and days to the years that follow.

When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was 10 years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream of becoming a Unitarian minister. She eventually began working with the Maine Game Warden Service, which conducts the state's search-and-rescue operations when people go missing in the wilderness.

Death is a clear-cut objective moment, but the process of dying and the choices we make for our own death and others is a wholly different subject. Not becoming educated on your ability to influence your dying process is leaving that potentially long helpless period to fate. Raw and informative, this book explores the truth and asserts your right to knowledge and your right to say "No" to medical procedures that ultimately only prolong suffering once imminent and inevitable death arrives.

Have you had moments of sadness or grief after a loss? A loss can be anything taken from you, involuntarily or even voluntarily. This book is for you, a friend or loved one as a gift if there is unresolved pain.

Do you find it difficult to open up the conversation or topics around grief? Do you find you are trying to escape your pain instead of learning to embracing it? Do you want to discover thought provoking questions that can lead to having deeper, and more meaningful conversations around grief and loss? Don't know how or where to begin moving forward on your healing journey? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you’re not alone. Knowing where to start or the right questions to ask can be a challenge when life becomes overwhelming.

While there is no getting over grief; there is a way forward through it. This book reveals that way. You are no longer alone in your grief -- starting now.

A stunning blend of the personal and professional, The Archaeology of Loss is Sarah Tarlow’s first memoir. An accomplished archaeologist, much of Sarah’s work is concerned with the ritual and belief behind the practice of grief. In 2012, she was awarded the Chair in Archaeology at the University of Leicester. But in the years that followed this appointment, Sarah’s husband, Mark, would begin to suffer from a progressive but undiagnosed illness, finally resulting in his inability to drive, to walk, to taste or to care for himself.

In raw, compelling honesty, Gael Garbarino Cullen articulates the complexities of grief and single motherhood, after the sudden, heart-breaking loss of her 40-year-old husband, beautifully illustrating the power of resilience, hope, and post-traumatic growth. It is an unflinching walk through the long and inevitably difficult stages of grief–confirming and validating the curves and turns that come with healing.

In A Manual for Heartache she describes how she learnt to live with grief and loss and find joy in the world again. She explores how to cope with life at its most difficult and overwhelming and how we can emerge from suffering forever changed but filled with hope. This is a moving, warm and uplifting book that offers solidarity and comfort to anyone going through a painful time, whatever it might be. It's a book that will help to soothe an aching heart and assure its listeners that they're not alone.

We are all curious about the mystery of death. Whether facing our own, assisting a loved one in their last days, or grieving the loss of someone dear to us, we all have questions about dying and what happens to our soul after we depart physical form. In this compassionate and straightforward guide to the spiritual process of dying and what happens after death, psychic medium Salicrow answers the most common questions asked by her clients over her decades of work as a spirit speaker.

Liz Jensen's son, a zoologist, conservationist and ecological activist, was twenty-five when he collapsed and died unexpectedly. She fell apart. As she grieved, forest fires raged, coral reefs deteriorated, CO2 emissions rose and fossil fuels burned. Your Wild and Precious Life is the story of how a mother rebuilt herself, reoriented her life and rediscovered the enchantment of the living world. Set against the backdrop of climate and ecological catastrophe, it's an argument for agency, legacy and the wild possibility of hope after devastation.