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Sacred Grief offers an intriguing exploration of the far-reaching ripple effect of our present-day opinions about surviving grief's emotional roller-coaster and the unnecessary suffering our judgments unconsciously promote. You'll find comfort in discovering that there's another dimension to this universal experience-a dimension that fosters trust, kindness and compassion, peacefully heals, and steadfastly moves you towards your soul's deepest desires...
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This is a must have book for every newly bereaved parent. Written by a mother who lost a son, the book offers help, hope and guidance to those facing the crippling emotions that come with the loss of a child of any age. The author combines suggestions gained from personal experience as well as advice from other parents and experts in their fields. This helpful information is presented in an easy to follow self-help format.
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It took only one phone call to change a family's life forever. When twenty-five-year-old Melissa Sullivan arrived at the hospital, she was already in a coma. Several days went by as Judith Sullivan, her husband, and her son and his wife held vigil in the hospital waiting room. Holding on to hope, the family clung to each other and to the friends that stopped by to offer support. But Melissa would not survive the cardiac arrest. Judith and her family...
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"Night Songs: Life in the Midst of Death" is a compelling reflection of life, death, and spirituality. Throughout her book, author Phyllis Mayo tells the death stories of 38 people. Each is unique and shares an up-lifting thought, "even in the midst of death." The stories begin with the death of the author's friend before they started first grade. The stories continue up until the month before the author's retirement. Some stories are profoundly sad,...
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En 1998, subitement, Martine Lafontaine perd son fils Justin, âgé d'à peine un an. Tout au long d'un cauchemar dont elle n'émergera que beaucoup plus tard, elle expérimentera toutes les douleurs qu'engendre cette perte.
Qu'est-ce qui fait qu'une personne demeure prisonnière d'une souffrance qui l'envahit et détruit tout sur son passage? C'est la question que s'est posée Martine après avoir entamé, finalement, un...
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#1 I was sent to help find a missing six-year-old girl near Masquinongy Pond. The parents were worried about their daughter, and the parents loved their child.
#2 I dial my house to hear my children's voices. It's early in the search, and there's hope. I know not to anticipate or plan for these calls. Hope and grief typically present themselves in novel ways every time.
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FINDING GRACE IN GRIEVING. AN INSPIRING AND MOVING BOOK TO REVISIT AGAIN AND AGAIN
To become strong and whole following a serious loss, Cheryl Lafferty Eckl says we are called to "love our way through to grief's natural conclusion." In this collection of her "soul space" writings, she shares her poignant sorrow from the death of her, while revealing deep insights of self-compassion, strength, and hope. As her thoughts unfold, you will feel Cheryl...
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#1 I was back at church, sharing everything with my congregation, when I was suddenly approached by the pastor. He wanted to know everything about my time away. I was nervous about jumping back onstage after half a year, but I got through it.
#2 The three things you need to remember when dealing with anxiety and depression are that you are not crazy, you are not alone,...
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How easy is it to connect with a loved one who has passed? Jamie Lee Silver says it's simple, easy, and natural. She says you don't have to be a medium or have any special powers. Being open to the idea is all you need. That, and the willingness to give it a try. Every since her son, Benjamin Lee Silver, developed a fatal mental illness that lead to taking his life in July of 2015, Jamie and Ben have been conversing through pen and paper. Jamie now...
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When a death happens in the family, our first thoughts are often of the children. However, we feel at a loss for ways to help children deal with death and with their own feelings. Doug Manning provides answers and assurances for anyone who is concerned about a child in grief. Doug looks at the grieving family, the grieving child and the red flags to watch for. He also discusses providing a safe place for children to grieve and being a safe person...
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Healing from the loss of a loved one can be a little less painful with reassurance from someone who has traveled the same path. For the Love of Cancer: A passionate pursuit to understand life, death, and spirituality was born from the author's personal journey as her husband's caregiver during his battle with cancer and her immense grief when he was killed in a motorcycle accident. In this book, Julie Davis Tittenhofer shares the most intimate details...
72) Summary of Ryan Casey Waller's Depression, Anxiety, and Other Things We Don't Want to Talk About
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#1 The circumstances that bring mental illness to light are often a surprise to everyone involved. Sometimes it's a friend or loved one, or perhaps someone you respected and admired from afar, who you never imagined to be struggling.
#2 We must be honest with ourselves about what's going on in our hearts and minds, because getting honest with ourselves is a difficult...
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Perhaps the only thing that can impact and shape a woman's life with the same power as her mother's love and guidance is her mother's death. In 'Without My Mum', Leigh Van Der Horst shares her own honest, heartfelt story of losing her beloved mother to cancer in 2008. She invites us on a journey that is at times heartbreaking and others heartwarming, yet is ultimately comforting and inspiring. With genuine warmth and candor, Leigh...
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Cristina Carballo-Perelman, M.D. has been a physician for over 30-years, providing care and comfort to many of her patients as they take their last breath.
In her book, The Caretaker of All Souls: An Intimate Interview with Death, Death takes center stage as the commentator of the experiences that she, as a physician, has had with Death throughout her career.
The persona of Death is examined as is the role it plays as caretaker of the Soul.
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75) Bereavement
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The one thing we all have to deal with at some time in our lives is the death of someone we love. And yet this is an eventuality that very few of us are prepared for. This book, by encouraging the person left behind to understand the stages of bereavement and to deal with the emotions it causes, bringing both sympathetic help and, hopefully, reassurance at a time when it is needed most.
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Whether debilitating illness, divorce, financial hardship, emotional upheaval, or a loved one's death, life's injustice impacts everyone. When it does, questions arise: How can God allow such suffering? Why is he so silent? Can he be trusted? Finding Hope When Life's Not Fair chronicles Lee Ezell's own journey of hope and courage as she struggled with her faith during her darkest days. Offering no easy answers but plenty of hard-won wisdom, she writes...
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In May 1951, a car, loaded with bootleg whiskey and traveling without lights, ran a stop sign at a West Texas country crossroads and collided with an ordinary cotton farming family. Five adults died that night, including Elva Edwards' mother, Pearle, her father, Calvin, and her beloved Granny Rogers. One-year-old Elva and her 3-year-old sister somehow survived. The girls grew up on the farm with their Edwards' grandparents whose lives were forever...
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No Time for Tears is a new kind of guide, rich with information and real-life stories, to help not only people struggling through grief due to the loss of a loved one but also those who counsel them. Psychotherapist Judy Heath draws on her experiences in private practice and in her own life, as well as years of research, to address the misconceptions, myths, and misinformation about grief that still abound today. She notes that while popular scholarship...
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#1 Beginnings are delicate or explosive. They can start almost invisibly or arrive with a big bang. They hold the promise of new lessons to be learned, new territory to be explored, and old lessons to be recalled, practiced, and appreciated.
#2 Don't judge the journey of others, and don't let them judge yours. All persons are free to have the experiences their souls...
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Widowhood Is Not Funny is a Guidebook for the new widow. The new life of a widow is a damn hard journey and the best travel guide is another widow. This Guidebook is written by someone who has been there and done that, someone who has been through the Five Stages of Grief and knows how difficult life is after losing one's husband. The new widow needs help from someone who knows how to get to acceptance. A New Widow especially needs to know she's not...
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