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At thirty-seven, Dr. Stephanie Cacioppo was content to be single. She was fulfilled by her work on the neuroscience of romantic love—how finding and growing with a partner literally reshapes our brains. That was, until she met the foremost neuroscientist of loneliness. A whirlwind romance led to marriage, to sharing an office at the University of Chicago. After seven years of being inseparable at work and home, she lost her beloved husband following a devastating battle with cancer.

A friendly and accessible book of 75 lists that will help anyone experiencing a change or loss—for fans of Maggie Smith, Cheryl Strayed, and Katherine May—from the creators of the popular What's Your Grief website and community.

The Lost Art of Dying is filled with much-needed insight and thoughtful guidance that will change our perceptions. Dr. Dugdale offers a hopeful perspective on death and dying as she shows us how to adapt the wisdom from the past to our lives today. Part of living well means preparing for the end, Dr. Dugdale reminds us. By recovering our sense of finitude, confronting our fears, accepting how our bodies age, developing meaningful rituals, and involving our communities in end-of-life care, we can discover what it means to both live and die well.

In For You When I Am Gone, Rabbi Steve Leder taught us how to write an ethical will, a letter to our loved ones that helps them understand what we have learned about how to live a meaningful life. Now, in this beautiful journal, Rabbi Leder provides prompts, exercises, and inspirational quotes to help us write our own ethical wills. As a helpful companion to the previous book or a complete stand-alone, this journal will show each of us how to create a lasting, meaningful legacy while enjoying the process of examining our lives.

You are about to discover exactly how to take charge of your emotions, break the association you have between emotions and food, and develop new, healthy relationships with food so that you can be on top of your health and weight-loss goals!

There is no better source of information on death and the afterlife than someone who has died and lives in spirit. Channeling his late son, Jordan, psychologist Matthew McKay offers a post-death guide for the living, revealing in vivid detail what to expect when we die and how to prepare for the wonders of the afterlife.

An inspiring, informative, and practical guide to navigating end-of-life issues, by a groundbreaking expert in the field and the New York Times best-selling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door. Katy Butler argues that we have lost touch with the “art of dying” as practiced by our ancestors, yet we still hunger for rites of passage and a sense of the sacred, especially in the important life transitions of aging and dying.

The death of someone we hold dear may be inevitable; being paralyzed by our grief is not. Recent research has revealed our capacity for resilient grieving, our innate ability to respond to traumatic loss by finding ways to grow—by becoming more engaged with our lives, and discovering new, profound meaning. In this completely updated and expanded second edition, author and resilience/well-being expert Lucy Hone, a pioneer in positive psychology and bereavement research, continues to push her field forward.

Nous voulons tous dire ou faire quelque chose pour aider un ami qui traverse un deuil. Mais par où commencer ? Lorsqu’une personne que nous connaissons vit un deuil, nous voulons instinctivement lui venir en aide, mais il nous arrive parfois de rester à distance ou de garder le silence, par peur de dire ou de faire quelque chose de mal. On craint de blesser la personne endeuillée au lieu de lui apporter du réconfort. Dans ce livre clair et pratique, Nancy Guthrie nous révèle ce dont les personnes endeuillées ont réellement besoin, nous rendant ainsi plus aptes à interagir avec elles.

Are you tired of feeling like a prisoner in your own body? Struggling to break free from emotional eating that keeps derailing your progress? What if I told you there's a secret to effortless and lasting change: Hypnosis. Imagine waking up feeling confident every morning or finally being able to slip into that dress you love. This isn't a dream; it's the reality countless women have achieved with the help of Kelly Robins, a certified weight loss hypnotherapist.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross supo desde muy joven que su misión era aliviar el sufrimiento humano, y ese compromiso la llevó al cuidado de enfermos terminales.

Struggling to resist cravings and wondering why you can’t stick to a plan? Desperate to break free from the endless battle with your weight and finally see real, lasting results? If so, Rapid Weight Loss Hypnosis For Women by Sandra Love is the breakthrough you’ve been waiting for. With years of experience in hypnotherapy and guided meditation, Sandra has helped countless women transform their bodies and minds using the power of hypnosis.

Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their house and viciously attacked them, leaving them for dead. The violent assault and the trauma of almost dying left him questioning assumptions he had lived by since childhood. For the first time, he encountered the face of evil and the terror of the unknown.

We live in a culture that suppresses our ability to truly feel our grief—deeply, safely, and on our own terms. But each person’s experience is as unique as the grief itself. Here, Camille Barton’s take on grief speaks directly to the ways that BIPOC and queer readers disproportionately experience unique constellations of loss.

Conscious Grieving is a book for anyone seeking guidance and support after loss. Renowned grief therapist Claire Bidwell Smith combines her deeply personal experience of loss with her long career spent working with thousands of people to introduce a new approach to grief, one that promotes hope and even transformation.

Renowned French neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst Boris Cyrulnik's parents were deported to a concentration camp during the Second World War. They never returned. This early personal trauma at the age of five led Cyrulnik to his life's work helping individuals and countries come to terms with their pasts and forge ahead to create positive futures. It is his firm belief that trauma does not equal destiny—that, rather, we can find strength in the face of pain.

Zara has always felt a little ordinary next to her spirited best friend Ivy. Even her dreams seem mundane: a boyfriend, marriage, children. Besides, who would pick her when they could choose Ivy? So when Zara meets Henry and there's an instant spark, she can't believe her luck. A wealthy CEO who wants to settle down? He's perfect...until Ivy insists he's too good to be true.

Every one of us experiences periods of pain and loss in our life—dark nights of the soul. This is a groundless territory where one feels directionless and devoid of tools, with no sense of how to take the next step. In ancient times, elders guided their communities through life's initiations and challenges, paths we must all take to transform and grow. In Walking through Darkness, legendary shamanic experts Sandra Ingerman and Llyn Roberts help us forge a pathway through the dark—as we embrace nature as our guide and healer.

Ce livre qui s'est vendu à plus de 200,000 exemplaires et traduit dans plusieurs langues est un incontournable. Il s'adresse à ceux et celles qui vivent une perte quelles qu'elles soient. Grandir les accompagne sur la route qui s'ouvre alors devant eux.

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.